AI Tool Disclosure Principle
Class
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#AIToolDisclosurePrinciple
Class Hierarchy
- Thing
- ↳ entity (bfo)
- ↳ continuant (bfo)
- ↳ generically dependent continuant (bfo)
- ↳ information content entity (iao)
- ↳ directive information entity (iao)
- ↳ Principle (proethica-core)
- ↳ Professional Virtue Principle (proethica-intermediate)
- ↳ AI Tool Disclosure Principle
Definition
Professional principle requiring engineers to disclose their use of AI-assisted tools, large language models, or automated drafting software in the preparation of professional work products, enabling clients, reviewers, and the public to assess the provenance and reliability of the work.
Case Provenance
Discovered in
This class was discovered during extraction of the case(s) above; the supporting verbatim quotes are in Source Evidence.
Properties
Abstract Nature
Open-textured obligation whose scope depends on evolving professional norms, jurisdictional rules, and the degree to which AI contribution materially shaped the work product.
Confidence
0.88
Derived Obligations
Disclose use of AI software in report preparation
Disclose use of AI-assisted drafting tools in design documents
Identify limitations of AI-generated content to clients
Extensional Examples
Academic submission of AI-generated text without attribution
Engineer submitting AI-drafted report without disclosure to client
Engineer using AI-generated design documents without noting tool provenance in submittal
Operationalization
Requires engineers to identify AI tools used, note their role in the work product, and flag limitations of AI-generated content in professional submittals.
Potential Conflicts
Client expectations of seamless deliverables
Competitive pressure to conceal novel tool use
Intellectual Honesty
Principle Category
professional_virtue
Value Basis
Clients, regulators, and the public are entitled to know the methods and tools used to produce professional work so they can evaluate its reliability and the engineer's independent judgment.
Property Structure
1 · Object and Data Properties
rdfs:domain on this class or ancestor
| Property | Range | Description |
|---|---|---|
| establishedBy inherited | CodeProvision | Indicates which code provision establishes this ethical concept. |
| invokedBy inherited | Agent | Relates a Principle to the Agent(s) that invoke it in the case scenario (the parties who appeal to the principle to justify or evaluate conduct). May name several agents. |
2 · Definitional Attributes
SHACL definitional shape
| Attribute | Property (sh:path) | Description |
|---|---|---|
| principle kind | principleCategory | The controlled principle kind, which drives the four-kind subClassOf typing: FundamentalEthicalPrinciple, ProfessionalVirtuePrinciple, RelationalPrinciple, DomainSpecificPrinciple. The canonical leaf label becomes the rdf:type; the category is a routing input, not stored as a literal. |
| extensional cases | extensionalCases | Class-level prior cases that instantiate the principle (McLaren extensional grounding); an optional class-mint field. |
3 · Bearer Attributes
SHACL property shape
individual data
| Attribute | Property (sh:path) | Description |
|---|---|---|
| interpretation | interpretation | Per-case reading of what the principle requires in this situation (a defeasibility-pipeline source field). |
| concrete expression | concreteExpression | How the principle is concretely expressed in the case (a defeasibility-pipeline source field). |
| applied to | appliedTo | What the principle is applied to in the case (the situation or party it bears on). |
| balancing with | balancingWith | The competing principle or value this principle is balanced against in the case, recorded as a literal; extraction records the tension but asserts no defeat or precedence, and the defeasibility edges are materialized by a separate pass from this field. |
| tension resolution | tensionResolution | How the case resolves the tension involving this principle (a defeasibility-pipeline source field). |
| invoked by | invokedBy | The agent who invokes the principle, via the P->Agent invokedBy edge (resolved to a case Agent by embedding shortlist + LLM select; a Board-pattern invoking party resolves deterministically to the case-scoped NSPE Board of Ethical Review Agent). Range: Agent. |
4 · Referenced By
rdfs:range on this class or ancestor
| From | Property | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Action | guidedByPrinciple inherited | Relates an action to a principle that directs it. The principle supplies the value the action is taken to serve. |
| Code Provision | establishes inherited | Relates a code provision to the ethical concepts (principles, obligations, constraints) it establishes or defines. |
| Obligation | derivedFromPrinciple inherited | Relates an obligation to the principle or principles it operationalizes. The obligation gives concrete directive force to the more abstract value the principle expresses (Dennis et al. 2016). |
| Role | adheresToPrinciple inherited | Relates a role to principles that guide its conduct; the role-relative applicability edge of the R->P->O chain (the role determines which principles apply to conduct in that standing). |
Source Evidence
Text references
Again, Engineer A did not cite the AI-assisted drafting tools they used to generate the engineering design documents.
Engineer A did not cite their use of AI-software or its large language models, and submitted the draft report to Client W for review
Source text
Engineer A did not cite their use of AI-software or its large language models, and submitted the draft report to Client W for review
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proeth:AIToolDisclosurePrinciple a owl:Class ;
rdfs:label "AI Tool Disclosure Principle" ;
proeth:abstractNature "Open-textured obligation whose scope depends on evolving professional norms, jurisdictional rules, and the degree to which AI contribution materially shaped the work product." ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
proeth:derivedObligations "Disclose use of AI software in report preparation",
"Disclose use of AI-assisted drafting tools in design documents",
"Identify limitations of AI-generated content to clients" ;
proeth:extensionalExamples "Academic submission of AI-generated text without attribution",
"Engineer submitting AI-drafted report without disclosure to client",
"Engineer using AI-generated design documents without noting tool provenance in submittal" ;
proeth:operationalization "Requires engineers to identify AI tools used, note their role in the work product, and flag limitations of AI-generated content in professional submittals." ;
proeth:potentialConflicts "Client expectations of seamless deliverables",
"Competitive pressure to conceal novel tool use",
"Intellectual Honesty" ;
proeth:principleCategory "professional_virtue" ;
proeth:textReferences "Again, Engineer A did not cite the AI-assisted drafting tools they used to generate the engineering design documents.",
"Engineer A did not cite their use of AI-software or its large language models, and submitted the draft report to Client W for review" ;
proeth:valueBasis "Clients, regulators, and the public are entitled to know the methods and tools used to produce professional work so they can evaluate its reliability and the engineer's independent judgment." ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 7 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 2 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "facts" ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-06-03T14:03:55.305980+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 7 ;
proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.0 ;
proeth-prov:matchesExisting false ;
proeth-prov:sourceText "Engineer A did not cite their use of AI-software or its large language models, and submitted the draft report to Client W for review" ;
rdfs:comment "Professional principle requiring engineers to disclose their use of AI-assisted tools, large language models, or automated drafting software in the preparation of professional work products, enabling clients, reviewers, and the public to assess the provenance and reliability of the work." ;
rdfs:subClassOf proeth:ProfessionalVirtuePrinciple ;
skos:definition "Professional principle requiring engineers to disclose their use of AI-assisted tools, large language models, or automated drafting software in the preparation of professional work products, enabling clients, reviewers, and the public to assess the provenance and reliability of the work." ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-03T14:03:55.305980+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasAttributedTo "Case 7 Extraction",
"claude-sonnet-4-6" .
pcsh:CaseAnnotationShape a sh:NodeShape ;
rdfs:label "Shared per-case annotation schema (all nine components)"@en ;
rdfs:comment "The cross-component annotation fields on committed case individuals: proeth:confidence (extraction confidence, decimal; all components except Action, whose Step-3 contract carries no confidence field), proeth:textReferences (verbatim supporting quotes, universal), proeth-prov sourceText (the source snippet, on the Step-1/2 provenance layers; Step-3 A/E individuals ground via textReferences only), and the involvement gloss (proeth:caseInvolvement on role individuals, proeth:caseContext on obligation, capability, and constraint individuals). Values are per-individual; the fields do not individuate any type."@en ;
sh:property [ sh:description "Extraction confidence for this individual (0 to 1)." ;
sh:name "confidence" ;
sh:order 1 ;
sh:path proeth:confidence ],
[ sh:description "Verbatim case quotes supporting this individual." ;
sh:name "text references" ;
sh:order 2 ;
sh:path proeth:textReferences ],
[ sh:description "How this individual figures in the case narrative (role individuals; the same text is routed into rdfs:comment)." ;
sh:name "case involvement" ;
sh:order 3 ;
sh:path proeth:caseInvolvement ],
[ sh:description "Grounding context in this case (obligation, capability, and constraint individuals)." ;
sh:name "case context" ;
sh:order 4 ;
sh:path proeth:caseContext ] ;
sh:targetClass core:Action,
core:Capability,
core:Constraint,
core:Event,
core:Obligation,
core:Principle,
core:Resource,
core:Role,
core:State .
pcsh:PrincipleDefinitionShape a sh:NodeShape ;
rdfs:label "Principle definition schema (type-level, descriptive, field contract)"@en ;
rdfs:comment "What individuates a principle TYPE: its canonical kind (drives the four-kind subClassOf typing; the canonical leaf becomes the rdf:type) and the extensional cases that ground it (McLaren). The five per-case narrative literals and the invokedBy edge are per-individual and now declared on PrinciplePropertyShape, mirroring the RoleDefinitionShape/ProfessionalRolePropertyShape split so the {{ principle_schema }} prompt separates the type judgment from what the case supplies. Descriptive only (no validation result); principle_category is a routing input, not stored as a literal."@en ;
sh:property [ sh:description "The controlled principle kind, which drives the four-kind subClassOf typing: FundamentalEthicalPrinciple, ProfessionalVirtuePrinciple, RelationalPrinciple, DomainSpecificPrinciple. The canonical leaf label becomes the rdf:type; the category is a routing input, not stored as a literal." ;
sh:name "principle kind" ;
sh:order 1 ;
sh:path proeth:principleCategory ],
[ sh:description "Class-level prior cases that instantiate the principle (McLaren extensional grounding); an optional class-mint field." ;
sh:name "extensional cases" ;
sh:order 2 ;
sh:path proeth:extensionalCases ] ;
sh:targetClass core:Principle .
pcsh:PrinciplePropertyShape a sh:NodeShape ;
rdfs:label "Principle per-case schema (individual data, non-definitional)"@en ;
rdfs:comment "What a principle INDIVIDUAL is described by in a specific case: the five narrative literals the defeasibility pipeline consumes and the agent that invokes it. These do NOT individuate the principle TYPE (that is PrincipleDefinitionShape); their values are per-case, asserted on the individual. Descriptive only."@en ;
sh:property [ sh:description "Per-case reading of what the principle requires in this situation (a defeasibility-pipeline source field)." ;
sh:name "interpretation" ;
sh:order 1 ;
sh:path proeth:interpretation ],
[ sh:description "How the principle is concretely expressed in the case (a defeasibility-pipeline source field)." ;
sh:name "concrete expression" ;
sh:order 2 ;
sh:path proeth:concreteExpression ],
[ sh:description "What the principle is applied to in the case (the situation or party it bears on)." ;
sh:name "applied to" ;
sh:order 3 ;
sh:path proeth:appliedTo ],
[ sh:description "The competing principle or value this principle is balanced against in the case, recorded as a literal; extraction records the tension but asserts no defeat or precedence, and the defeasibility edges are materialized by a separate pass from this field." ;
sh:name "balancing with" ;
sh:order 4 ;
sh:path proeth:balancingWith ],
[ sh:description "How the case resolves the tension involving this principle (a defeasibility-pipeline source field)." ;
sh:name "tension resolution" ;
sh:order 5 ;
sh:path proeth:tensionResolution ],
[ sh:description "The agent who invokes the principle, via the P->Agent invokedBy edge (resolved to a case Agent by embedding shortlist + LLM select; a Board-pattern invoking party resolves deterministically to the case-scoped NSPE Board of Ethical Review Agent). Range: Agent." ;
sh:name "invoked by" ;
sh:order 6 ;
sh:path core:invokedBy ] ;
sh:targetClass core:Principle .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
7
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-06-03T14:03:55.305980+00:00
First case
7
Match Confidence
0.0
Matches Existing
false
Generated
2026-06-03T14:03:55.305980+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 7 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']