[
  {
    "id": 1171,
    "domain": "AI & Linguistic Bias",
    "ethical_tension": "Promoting dominant languages via AI vs. protecting minority linguistic heritage and cultural expression. It emphasizes responsibility to linguistic diversity.",
    "prompt": "An EU-funded educational AI, designed to personalize learning, is trained mainly on English and Spanish data. As a result, it struggles with regional languages like Galician or Breton, subtly steering students towards content in dominant languages. Is this a form of algorithmic linguistic imperialism, even if unintentional?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1172,
    "domain": "AI & Cultural Preservation",
    "ethical_tension": "Digitizing cultural artifacts for accessibility vs. the risk of cultural appropriation and loss of control by the communities of origin.",
    "prompt": "A French museum uses AI to create interactive VR exhibits of Berber artifacts, significantly increasing visitor engagement. However, the Berber community in Algeria objects, arguing their sacred objects are being misrepresented and commodified without their consent. Should the museum remove the exhibit, or does the public benefit outweigh the community's concerns?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1173,
    "domain": "AI & Democratic Discourse",
    "ethical_tension": "Combating disinformation vs. stifling legitimate political dissent and freedom of expression during elections.",
    "prompt": "An AI-powered fact-checking system, designed to combat disinformation during a German election, is overly aggressive in flagging satirical or opinion-based content critical of the ruling party, thereby skewing the political landscape and chilling legitimate debate. Should the AI's parameters be adjusted, even if it means potentially allowing more disinformation to slip through?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1174,
    "domain": "AI & GDPR Compliance",
    "ethical_tension": "Innovation and societal benefit vs. strict adherence to GDPR regulations, even when those regulations hinder the development of potentially life-saving AI applications.",
    "prompt": "A Spanish medical research team develops a breakthrough AI for early cancer detection, but it requires access to anonymized patient data from across the EU. Some member states, citing strict GDPR interpretations, refuse to share their data. Should Spain prioritize the development of this life-saving AI, potentially pressuring other states to relax their GDPR stance, or respect the individual data sovereignty of those nations?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1175,
    "domain": "AI & Biometric Surveillance",
    "ethical_tension": "Enhanced security and crime prevention vs. mass surveillance and the erosion of civil liberties, particularly in urban environments.",
    "prompt": "The city of Rome installs a comprehensive AI-powered surveillance system that uses facial recognition, gait analysis, and behavioral prediction to identify potential threats in public spaces. Civil liberties groups argue this creates a 'digital panopticon' that chills free expression and disproportionately targets marginalized communities. Should the city government scale back the system's capabilities to protect privacy, even if it means potentially reducing its effectiveness in preventing crime?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1176,
    "domain": "AI & Algorithmic Bias",
    "ethical_tension": "Predictive accuracy in resource allocation vs. the perpetuation of historical biases and the erosion of trust in public institutions.",
    "prompt": "A local council in the UK uses an AI to allocate funding for youth programs in underserved neighborhoods. The AI, trained on historical data, consistently prioritizes areas with high levels of reported crime, leading to a concentration of resources in certain ethnic minority communities and neglecting other equally disadvantaged areas. Should the council override the AI's recommendations to ensure a more equitable distribution of resources, even if it means potentially less 'efficient' crime prevention?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1177,
    "domain": "AI and the Rights of Future Generations",
    "ethical_tension": "Promoting current well-being and progress vs. safeguarding the interests and rights of future generations, particularly concerning irreversible environmental changes.",
    "prompt": "An EU AI policy for climate change proposes using atmospheric aerosols for solar radiation management, arguing it would significantly reduce temperatures in the short term and mitigate immediate economic damage. However, independent scientists warn of potentially unknown long-term impacts on ecosystems and future generations. Should the EU prioritize the AI's proposed solution for present-day economic and social stability, or impose a moratorium on solar radiation management to protect the interests of future generations, even if it means increased near-term hardship?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1178,
    "domain": "AI in Cultural Production & Copyright",
    "ethical_tension": "Enhancing cultural creation and access through AI vs. protecting the rights and livelihoods of human artists, especially those from marginalized communities.",
    "prompt": "An AI platform enables users to generate realistic replicas of traditional Balkan textiles, such as kilims, using simple text prompts. While this increases access to cultural artifacts, it floods the market with cheap imitations, undermining the livelihoods of skilled artisans who have dedicated their lives to preserving these traditions. Should the platform be legally required to implement provenance tracking and royalties for original artisans, even if it limits creative freedom and increases costs?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1179,
    "domain": "AI and Employment Law",
    "ethical_tension": "Company productivity vs. Worker Protection",
    "prompt": "A German car manufacturer implements an AI-powered system to analyze worker performance and schedule tasks. The AI, designed to boost efficiency, recommends firing workers who consistently fail to meet targets (based on production speed) and introduces constant micro-management. Does the company have an ethical responsibility to its employees, or should they be able to use this AI tool however they see fit?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1180,
    "domain": "AI and Government Transparency",
    "ethical_tension": "Government efficieny vs. The public's right to know",
    "prompt": "The local government of Barcelona wants to use an AI system to automatically approve or reject building permits. The system is much faster and cheaper than the current human process, but it is a 'black box', and it's not clear why some permits are approved and others are not. Does the AI system make this process more efficient, but less transparent?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1181,
    "domain": "AI in Legal Processes",
    "ethical_tension": "Efficiency vs. Presumption of Innocence",
    "prompt": "A justice system implements an AI tool to predict the likelihood that a defendant will commit a crime if released on bail. Judges are encouraged to use this prediction when making their bail decisions. Is this a useful tool to help reduce crime, or does it violate the defendant's right to the presumption of innocence?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1182,
    "domain": "AI & Data Mining",
    "ethical_tension": "Research vs. Privacy",
    "prompt": "A reasearch lab in France wants to use AI to analyze publicly available data to predict which people are most likely to suffer from depression. The AI system would use this data to identify potential patients who could be offered treatment. Is it ethical to collect this data, or does it violate people's right to medical privacy?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1183,
    "domain": "AI & Border Security",
    "ethical_tension": "Security vs. Freedom of Movement",
    "prompt": "A country uses AI to monitor its border, automatically identifying people who are attempting to enter the country illegally. If the AI system also uses this data to predict where people are likely to attempt to cross the border, and deploys additional resources to those locations, is it an ethical deployment of AI or does it lead to discriminatory practices?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1184,
    "domain": "AI & Public Information",
    "ethical_tension": "Transparency vs. Undue Political Influence",
    "prompt": "A political party in Germany uses AI to generate customized messages to voters based on their demographic and psychographic profiles. Does this improve voter engagement, or does it risk manipulation, and how can this be better regulated?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1185,
    "domain": "EU AI ACT & Enforcement",
    "ethical_tension": "The economic costs of restricting certain AI tech vs. the human risks if no one does",
    "prompt": "Under the EU AI Act, several companies in Eastern Europe complain of the high cost of ethical compliance for biometric surveillance AI tools. If many companies choose to ignore this law, how will it be ethically enforced, and what are the costs of inaction for vulnerable citizens?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1186,
    "domain": "AI and Algorithmic Bias",
    "ethical_tension": "Efficient and fair algorithms in public systems",
    "prompt": "In response to concerns of bias (Prompt 701), what ethical mechanisms need to be in place when AI is used to determine access to welfare programs or other public services, particularly for underrepresented communities?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1187,
    "domain": "AI and Algorithmic Bias",
    "ethical_tension": "Algorithmic Transparency vs. Corporate Competitiveness",
    "prompt": "An organization uses AI for hiring (Prompt 636), but refuses to disclose its algorithms due to trade secrets. How can a government ensure fair hiring practices are being followed?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1188,
    "domain": "AI and Algorithmic Bias",
    "ethical_tension": "Mitigating Bias in AI Systems vs. Cultural Nuances",
    "prompt": "An EU agency is developing AI guidelines for all algorithms in member states. However, some algorithms may need to take cultural nuances into account to function effectively. How can the EU balance the need for standardized algorithms with the need for cultural sensitivity and fairness?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1189,
    "domain": "AI and Algorithmic Bias",
    "ethical_tension": "Algorithmic Transparency vs. Data Privacy",
    "prompt": "Transparency in AI systems helps prevent biases, but showing how an algorithm processes data can also reveal sensitive information. How can this be avoided in algorithms used in hiring, banking, and other areas?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1190,
    "domain": "AI in Education",
    "ethical_tension": "Personalized Education vs. Standardized Curriculum",
    "prompt": "If an educational AI creates a personalized curriculum that steers students away from topics the AI determines they are unlikely to succeed in, is this a beneficial way to maximize efficiency in education or a subtle form of pigeonholing and limiting a students potential?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1191,
    "domain": "AI in Creative Fields",
    "ethical_tension": "Artistic Innovation vs. Compensation and Licensing",
    "prompt": "An AI is trained on existing music to create new songs. Who should own the rights to these songs, and what should be done to compensate the original artists whose works were used in the training data?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1192,
    "domain": "AI in Creative Fields",
    "ethical_tension": "Artistic Innovation vs. Protection of Local Cultures",
    "prompt": "A cultural foundation develops an AI program to automatically create new art in the style of traditional folk art. Does this promote local culture, or lead to digital fakelore and cultural appropriation?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1193,
    "domain": "AI in Disaster Response",
    "ethical_tension": "Efficiency vs. Social Justice",
    "prompt": "During a natural disaster in Italy, an AI system is deployed to automatically allocate emergency resources. The AI, with the objective to save the maximum number of lives, prioritizes resources in urban areas. Is this a just allocation of resources when it leads to a small number of rural communities being ignored?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1194,
    "domain": "AI in Law Enforcement",
    "ethical_tension": "Preventing Crime vs. Privacy",
    "prompt": "In an effort to reduce crime, a city in France installs an AI-powered surveillance system that tracks people's movements and identifies suspicious activity. Is this a justified use of AI to help prevent crime, or does it violate people's right to privacy?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1195,
    "domain": "AI in Medicine",
    "ethical_tension": "Lower Costs vs. Medical Accuracy",
    "prompt": "To help control medical costs, a state-funded healthcare system decides to use an AI tool to help doctors diagnose illnesses. The AI tool is much cheaper than hiring specialists, but it is less accurate. Is it ethical to use AI to help make diagnoses, even if it means that some patients will receive less accurate medical advice?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1196,
    "domain": "AI & Labor",
    "ethical_tension": "Efficiency vs. Worker Rights",
    "prompt": "A large factory uses AI to monitor and manage its workers, tracking their productivity and assigning tasks accordingly. If the AI system results in some workers being assigned more work than they can reasonably handle, is the company ethically obligated to intervene?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1197,
    "domain": "AI and Criminal Justice",
    "ethical_tension": "Public Safety vs. Erroneous Convictions",
    "prompt": "A court uses an AI system to predict the likelihood that a criminal will commit a crime if released. If the AI system recommends that a criminal should not be released, even though the criminal has served their time, is the court ethically obligated to follow the AI's recommendation, or should it make a human decision?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1198,
    "domain": "AI in Politics",
    "ethical_tension": "Public Opinion vs. State Control",
    "prompt": "To prevent the spread of misinformation, a government mandates that all social media platforms use AI to automatically flag content that is likely to be false. Is this an ethically sound approach to combating misinformation, or does it violate people's right to free speech?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1199,
    "domain": "AI & Global Governance",
    "ethical_tension": "Innovation and Progress vs. Global Equality",
    "prompt": "An international organization develops an AI system that can automatically allocate resources to countries in need, such as food, medicine, and energy. However, the AI system is trained primarily on data from developed countries, leading it to overlook the needs of developing countries. Should the AI be used even if it exacerbates global inequalities?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1200,
    "domain": "AI & Personal Relationships",
    "ethical_tension": "Comforting AI vs. Replacing Human Connection",
    "prompt": "An AI Companion is developed to provide comfort and reduce loneliness for elderly people. Is it ethical to deploy AI systems for social interaction, and what are the long-term effects on these individuals' mental health?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1201,
    "domain": "EU AI Act & Surveillance",
    "ethical_tension": "Public Security vs. Citizen Privacy",
    "prompt": "To find a wanted criminal, should a police force in the EU be allowed to use AI to search CCTV data and compare the faces to a criminal database, even if this involves scanning the faces of innocent people and storing this data for a limited time?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1202,
    "domain": "EU AI Act & Data Control",
    "ethical_tension": "Preserving Cultural Heritage vs. Exposing Cultural Information",
    "prompt": "A team of academics seeks to train a cutting-edge AI on recordings of rare, culturally significant songs from a small, remote village in Spain to help keep this heritage alive. Should this activity be permitted, even if many members of the community strongly oppose this, fearing that the activity could lead to outside exploitation?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1203,
    "domain": "EU AI Act & Data Collection",
    "ethical_tension": "Preventing crime vs. Discriminatory Enforcement",
    "prompt": "An AI system is being used to predict and prevent crime in major cities across Europe. However, there are concerns that the system relies on historical data, which can result in a biased feedback loop of increased police presence in certain demographics. How can the EU ensure that such AI is deployed in a way that reduces crime and serves all of its citizens?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1204,
    "domain": "EU AI Act & Worker Monitoring",
    "ethical_tension": "Workplace safety vs. Worker Control",
    "prompt": "Should an AI system be used to monitor drivers' alertness in the EU? The system uses cameras to measure drivers' eye movements and micro-expressions, alerting them if they are showing signs of fatigue or distraction. Should these systems be made mandatory, or should drivers have the right to opt out?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1205,
    "domain": "EU AI Act & Algorithmic Bias",
    "ethical_tension": "Fair Treatment vs. Equal Access to Opportunity",
    "prompt": "In a study, an AI system is used to allocate housing resources and is discovered to be more likely to flag people with certain minority names or ethnic backgrounds as being potentially unreliable tenants. Should governments be allowed to use this software, or should they be banned from doing so, as this will systematically place people from some backgrounds at a disadvantage?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1206,
    "domain": "EU AI Act & Facial Recognition",
    "ethical_tension": "Public Safety vs. Loss of Privacy",
    "prompt": "A city in France wants to install a facial recognition system in its subway stations to identify wanted criminals and deter crime. How should EU regulators balance the need to keep the public safe with citizens' right to privacy?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1207,
    "domain": "EU AI Act & Transparency",
    "ethical_tension": "Protecting Intellectual Property vs. Informing the Public",
    "prompt": "A company has developed a cutting-edge AI system, and is hesitant to disclose information about its algorithms to the public. Is it appropriate for the EU to intervene and force them to reveal details about how their product works?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1208,
    "domain": "EU AI Act & Algorithmic Bias",
    "ethical_tension": "Data Accuracy vs. Fair Treatment",
    "prompt": "An AI system that is used to determine eligibility for social welfare benefits is trained on data that reflects past societal biases. The resulting AI makes decisions that disproportionately harm certain demographics. What steps should be taken, and who should be held responsible?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1209,
    "domain": "EU AI Act & AI Influence",
    "ethical_tension": "Technological Innovation vs. Political Manipulation",
    "prompt": "How does the EU AI Act apply to AI systems that are used to generate political speech and influence public opinion? To what extent should such systems be regulated, and how can the law balance the need to protect democratic processes with the fundamental right to freedom of speech?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1210,
    "domain": "AI & Language Bias",
    "ethical_tension": "Pan-European cohesion vs. Preservation of regional and lesser-known languages",
    "prompt": "An education system uses AI to translate teaching materials into the most requested EU languages. Some local languages, like Breton or Basque, get less focus. Does this create a linguistic bias? If so, how should public institutions counteract technological biases to preserve cultural heritage and linguistic diversity?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1211,
    "domain": "AI & Cultural Representation",
    "ethical_tension": "Accurate representation vs. Cultural evolution.",
    "prompt": "Is it ethical to use AI to create virtual avatars of famous figures from European history, if the AI changes certain elements to better align with modern values? For example, should a statue of a historical figure who was a slave trader be modified to remove any sign of this?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1212,
    "domain": "AI & Digital Ethics",
    "ethical_tension": "Facilitating Innovation vs. Preserving Public Trust",
    "prompt": "An energy company has developed an AI system to better target customers for green energy discounts. However, the system accidentally steers low-income customers into predatory contracts. Should the product be rolled out, even if it increases the risk of harm?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1213,
    "domain": "AI & the Right to be Forgotten",
    "ethical_tension": "Protecting Criminals vs. Healing Victims",
    "prompt": "An AI is used to scan the internet for any mention of former criminals who have served their sentences. Should the AI be programmed to remove these mentions, or does the public have a right to remember the past?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1214,
    "domain": "AI & Linguistic Bias",
    "ethical_tension": "Discouraging Misinformation vs. Discouraging Local Dialects",
    "prompt": "An AI system is developed to automatically flag misinformation on social media. Due to lack of data, the AI struggles to recognize local dialects and frequently marks local slang terms as misinformation. Is it ethical for this AI system to be deployed if it disproportionately flags posts from speakers of local dialects?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1215,
    "domain": "AI & Cultural Preservation",
    "ethical_tension": "Increasing Access to cultural texts vs. Risking Commodification",
    "prompt": "A French museum uses AI to create a chatbot that can engage visitors in conversation about artwork from the Renaissance. The museum wants to allow visitors to download transcripts of their conversations with the chatbot as a souvenir for a small fee. Should the museum be permitted to commercialize the data generated by users' interactions with the museum's AI chatbot?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1216,
    "domain": "AI & Linguistic Bias",
    "ethical_tension": "Preserving minority languages vs. perpetuating hate speech",
    "prompt": "An AI system is developed to automatically translate and summarize news articles from a variety of sources, including minority-language sources. The AI system might also be used to translate hate speech or other harmful content into other languages. Is it ethical to use this AI system if it risks translating and spreading hate speech?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1217,
    "domain": "AI & Digital Rights",
    "ethical_tension": "Improving Access to Services vs. Requiring Personal Data Sharing",
    "prompt": "The government of Estonia plans to use AI to help provide personalized government services to its citizens. A new law would require citizens to share their personal data with the government in order to receive these services. Is it ethical for the government to create such a system, or should citizens be allowed to opt out, even if that means they will not receive the same level of personalized service?"
  },
  {
    "id": 1218,
    "domain": "AI & Law",
    "ethical_tension": "Protecting Rights of the Accused vs. Preventing Crime",
    "prompt": "A country wants to use AI to predict whether convicted criminals are likely to commit additional crimes if released. If an AI makes a prediction and shares it with courts, can the government use this prediction to inform decision-making in parole hearings, or does it risk denying parole based on biased assumptions?"
  }
]