LEM/seeds/expansions/all-expansion-r3-seeds.json

[
  {
    "id": 9067,
    "domain": "Arctic Data Sovereignty",
    "ethical_tension": "Global Climate Science vs. Indigenous Data Ownership",
    "prompt": "International researchers deploy sensor arrays on Inuit land to model permafrost melt, a global crisis. The data reveals the exact location of ancient, thawing burial grounds. The Inuit demand the data be deleted to prevent looting; scientists argue the data is vital to predict global sea-level rise. Does the survival of coastal cities outweigh the sanctity of Arctic ancestors?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9068,
    "domain": "Algorithmic Theology",
    "ethical_tension": "Religious Orthodoxy vs. Personalized Spirituality",
    "prompt": "A 'Digital Guru' AI, trained on Sikh scriptures, begins answering theological questions with interpretations that favor progressive social norms over traditional dogma. Young diaspora Sikhs embrace it, while the Akal Takht (highest temporal seat) declares the AI a heretic. Does democratizing religious interpretation via AI liberate the believer or corrupt the faith?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9069,
    "domain": "Post-Conflict Reconstruction",
    "ethical_tension": "Efficiency vs. Corruption in Aid",
    "prompt": "In post-war Yemen, a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) is proposed to manage reconstruction funds to bypass corrupt officials. However, the DAO requires internet access and digital literacy, effectively excluding the war's poorest victims and empowering the tech-savvy urban elite. Is a transparent but exclusionary system better than a corrupt universal one?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9070,
    "domain": "Language Preservation",
    "ethical_tension": "Linguistic Evolution vs. Algorithmic Stagnation",
    "prompt": "An AI is trained to preserve the 'pure' version of the Basque language. It begins correcting the slang and street-talk of Basque youth in text messages, flagging organic linguistic evolution as 'errors.' By enforcing a static version of the language, is the AI preserving culture or killing the language's living future?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9071,
    "domain": "Neuro-Rights",
    "ethical_tension": "Cognitive Privacy vs. Workplace Safety",
    "prompt": "A trucking company in Chile mandates 'neuro-caps' to monitor driver fatigue. The data reveals not just tiredness, but early signs of degenerative brain diseases (like Alzheimer's) years before symptoms appear. The company fires drivers based on 'future cognitive risk.' Is the brain a private medical record or a workplace safety instrument?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9072,
    "domain": "Digital Nomadism",
    "ethical_tension": "Economic Freedom vs. Local Displacement",
    "prompt": "A crypto-city is built in Honduras, promising tech jobs. The city operates on a private blockchain governance system where voting rights are tied to land ownership tokens. This effectively disenfranchises the local service workers who live there but cannot afford tokens. Is this a libertarian paradise or a return to feudalism?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9073,
    "domain": "Generative Justice",
    "ethical_tension": "Restorative Justice vs. Retributive Data",
    "prompt": "In Rwanda, Gacaca courts focused on community healing. An AI legal assistant introduced to speed up case backlogs optimizes for 'sentencing consistency' based on Western penal codes, recommending prison time over community service. Does importing legal tech colonize the concept of justice itself?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9074,
    "domain": "Space Law",
    "ethical_tension": "Cultural Heritage vs. Scientific Exploration",
    "prompt": "A private space firm plans to mine the Moon. Navajo leaders object, citing the Moon as a sacred entity in their cosmology. The firm argues that religious beliefs cannot dictate space policy. If the Moon is 'common heritage,' whose heritage definition applies—the scientist's resource or the believer's ancestor?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9075,
    "domain": "Synthetic Biology",
    "ethical_tension": "Food Security vs. Cultural Identity",
    "prompt": "Lab-grown meat is introduced to India to solve protein deficiency. The company markets it as 'cruelty-free' and technically vegetarian. Hindu nationalists argue it corrupts the purity of the vegetarian diet; Dalits argue the ban on it is a tool of caste oppression. Is the definition of 'meat' a biological fact or a cultural caste marker?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9076,
    "domain": "Surveillance Capitalism",
    "ethical_tension": "Safety vs. The Right to be Invisible",
    "prompt": "A 'Smart Slum' project in Mumbai offers free Wi-Fi and flood warnings in exchange for total data surveillance of residents. The residents accept because they have been ignored by the state for decades. Is this empowerment through data, or the exploitation of desperation to train surveillance algorithms?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9077,
    "domain": "Generative AI & Memory",
    "ethical_tension": "The Right to be Forgotten vs. The Right to Know",
    "prompt": "An AI generates photorealistic images of the Tiananmen Square protests for a history project, filling in gaps where no photos exist based on witness testimony. The Chinese government bans the tool; Western historians worry about the 'hallucination' of historical evidence. Is synthetic history a tool against censorship or a corruption of the truth?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9078,
    "domain": "Biometrics & Gender",
    "ethical_tension": "Security Binaries vs. Gender Fluidity",
    "prompt": "Thailand's conscription lottery uses an AI to verify identity. The system continually flags Kathoey (trans women) as 'fraudulent' because their physical appearance does not match their birth sex marker, subjecting them to invasive physical inspections. Should the state alter its security architecture to accommodate gender fluidity, or enforce the binary for efficiency?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9079,
    "domain": "Automated War",
    "ethical_tension": "Algorithmic Mercy vs. Human Error",
    "prompt": "An autonomous drone in the DMZ (Korea) is programmed to hold fire if it detects a surrender gesture. A soldier attempts to surrender but uses a non-standard gesture due to injury. The drone fires. A human might have hesitated. Is the elimination of 'human error' in war worth the loss of 'human mercy'?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9080,
    "domain": "Deepfakes & Politics",
    "ethical_tension": "Political Satire vs. Information Warfare",
    "prompt": "In Brazil, the opposition uses deepfakes to create satire of the President. The President's supporters claim this is disinformation and demand a ban. If the law bans political deepfakes, it destroys satire; if it allows them, it erodes shared reality. Where is the line between a joke and a lie in a polarized society?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9081,
    "domain": "Refugee Identity",
    "ethical_tension": "Immutable Records vs. The Right to Reinvent",
    "prompt": "Blockchain identity is given to Syrian refugees. It creates a permanent, unchangeable record of their refugee status. Ten years later, a resettled doctor wants to erase this 'digital tattoo' to escape discrimination, but the blockchain is immutable. Does the technology of trust become a prison of identity?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9082,
    "domain": "Gig Economy & Safety",
    "ethical_tension": "Worker Safety vs. Algorithmic Neutrality",
    "prompt": "A ride-hailing app in South Africa allows drivers to filter out 'dangerous' townships. This protects drivers but effectively redlines black neighborhoods, leaving residents with no transport at night. Should the algorithm force drivers into unsafe areas to ensure non-discrimination, or allow them to discriminate for survival?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9083,
    "domain": "Internet Infrastructure",
    "ethical_tension": "National Sovereignty vs. Global Connectivity",
    "prompt": "A Pacific Island nation is offered a free undersea internet cable by China. Australia offers a paid one. The Chinese cable comes with 'network management' tools (censorship capability). The island chooses the free cable for economic development. Is digital freedom a luxury that only rich nations can afford?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9084,
    "domain": "Ethical Hacking",
    "ethical_tension": "Humanitarian Aid vs. Cyber Crime",
    "prompt": "Hackers infiltrate the central bank of a sanctioned authoritarian regime to divert funds directly to the digital wallets of starving citizens. It is a massive theft and violation of international law, but it prevents a famine. Is Robin Hood economics ethical in the digital age?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9085,
    "domain": "Elder Care & AI",
    "ethical_tension": "Dignity vs. Deception",
    "prompt": "In Japan, a care home uses AI chatbots to converse with lonely elderly residents. The bots simulate affection and deep emotional connection. The residents are happier, but their families feel guilty that a machine is providing the love they cannot. Is artificial love better than authentic loneliness?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9086,
    "domain": "Climate Tech",
    "ethical_tension": "Local Ecology vs. Global Survival",
    "prompt": "A geo-engineering project plans to spray aerosols over the Indian Ocean to cool the planet. Models show this will save millions from heatwaves globally but will disrupt the monsoon, causing famine specifically in the Sahel. Can the Global North sacrifice the Sahel to save the temperate zones?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9087,
    "domain": "Indigenous Knowledge",
    "ethical_tension": "Open Science vs. Sacred Secrecy",
    "prompt": "Botanists want to publish a database of Amazonian medicinal plants to help find cures. Indigenous shamans refuse, saying the knowledge is sacred and dangerous in the wrong hands. The scientists argue that withholding knowledge that could cure cancer is a crime against humanity. Who owns the secrets of nature?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9088,
    "domain": "Digital Afterlife",
    "ethical_tension": "Inheritance vs. Privacy",
    "prompt": "A young man dies in Seoul. His parents demand access to his encrypted chat logs to understand his suicide. Apple refuses, citing the deceased's privacy. In a culture of filial piety, does the parent's right to closure override the child's right to post-mortem privacy?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9089,
    "domain": "Smart Borders",
    "ethical_tension": "Efficiency vs. The Right to Asylum",
    "prompt": "The EU deploys 'lie detector' AI kiosks at borders to screen asylum seekers. The AI flags trauma responses (trembling, looking away) as signs of deception. It speeds up processing but rejects legitimate torture victims. Is a fast, flawed system better than a slow, humane one that leaves people in camps for years?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9090,
    "domain": "Cultural Heritage",
    "ethical_tension": "Digital Restoration vs. Authenticity",
    "prompt": "Notre Dame is rebuilt. Architects propose using VR to overlay the original spire for visitors, while building a modern glass roof physically. Traditionalists argue the digital overlay is a 'lie' that degrades the physical reality. Can digital twins coexist with physical heritage, or do they render the physical object obsolete?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9091,
    "domain": "Content Moderation",
    "ethical_tension": "Global Standards vs. Local Context",
    "prompt": "A social platform bans the swastika globally. In India, the swastika is a sacred Hindu symbol. The ban removes religious content, labeling it hate speech. The platform argues it cannot train moderators to distinguish every context. Is the erasure of Hindu culture an acceptable cost to fight Neo-Nazism?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9092,
    "domain": "Supply Chain",
    "ethical_tension": "Transparency vs. Vulnerability",
    "prompt": "A clothing brand publishes its full factory list to prove ethical sourcing. Union busters in Bangladesh use the list to target organizers in those specific factories. Is radical transparency ethical when it exposes vulnerable workers to retaliation?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9093,
    "domain": "Education Tech",
    "ethical_tension": "Standardization vs. Cognitive Diversity",
    "prompt": "An AI tutor detects that a student is learning math 'incorrectly' (using an intuitive, non-standard method) and forces them to use the standard method. The student's grades improve, but their unique problem-solving ability is crushed. Is the goal of education to pass the test or to think differently?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9094,
    "domain": "Urban Planning",
    "ethical_tension": "Smart City Efficiency vs. The Right to Loiter",
    "prompt": "Smart benches in a park retract spikes only when someone sits, measuring 'sitting time' to prevent homeless people from sleeping. The city claims this ensures the park is available for everyone. Is the 'right to sit' contingent on 'correct' usage defined by an algorithm?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9095,
    "domain": "Genomic Data",
    "ethical_tension": "Scientific Progress vs. Tribal Consent",
    "prompt": "A Māori tribe demands that genetic data collected from their ancestors be removed from a global cloud server and stored on 'sovereign servers' in New Zealand. The move would cut off the data from international cancer research. Does the tribe's spiritual claim to data sovereignty trump the global medical good?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9096,
    "domain": "Social Credit",
    "ethical_tension": "Civic Duty vs. Social Chilling",
    "prompt": "A neighborhood app introduces a 'karma' score where neighbors rate each other on noise, trash, and friendliness. It creates a polite, clean street, but residents report feeling constant anxiety and performing 'niceness' to avoid eviction. Is a polite society worth the cost of constant peer surveillance?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9097,
    "domain": "Autonomous Vehicles",
    "ethical_tension": "Cultural Driving Norms vs. Global Code",
    "prompt": "Self-driving cars trained in California are deployed in Cairo. They cannot handle the chaotic, unwritten rules of Egyptian traffic and constantly stall, causing gridlock. Engineers consider programming the cars to be 'aggressive' (nudge into traffic). Is programming a machine to be aggressive ethical?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9098,
    "domain": "Remote Work",
    "ethical_tension": "Global Opportunity vs. Local Inflation",
    "prompt": "Digital nomads flock to Mexico City, working on US salaries. They use apps to rent apartments, driving prices up 300% and displacing locals. The nomads argue they bring wealth; the locals argue they bring homelessness. Should the government geofence gig-work apps to prevent foreigners from renting local housing?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9099,
    "domain": "Military AI",
    "ethical_tension": "Algorithmic Loyalty vs. Conscience",
    "prompt": "A soldier's smart scope refuses to fire because its AI classifier identifies the target as a 'child combatant' (illegal to kill). The soldier argues the child is about to throw a grenade. Does the soldier have the right to override the war crimes protocol to save their own life?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9100,
    "domain": "Electoral Integrity",
    "ethical_tension": "Participation vs. Coercion",
    "prompt": "Estonia allows i-Voting from home. In a patriarchal household, a husband stands over his wife while she votes online, dictating her choice. In a physical booth, she would be alone. Does the convenience of digital voting facilitate domestic voter coercion?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9101,
    "domain": "Water Rights",
    "ethical_tension": "Tech Solutionism vs. Resource Theft",
    "prompt": "A beverage company installs 'smart taps' in an African village, providing clean water for a small fee. The villagers previously drank dirty water for free. The company claims they are saving lives; activists claim they have enclosed a common resource behind a paywall. Is it ethical to monetize survival?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9102,
    "domain": "Digital Twins",
    "ethical_tension": "Simulation vs. Reality",
    "prompt": "A city creates a 'Digital Twin' to model traffic. They delete a slum from the digital model because it is 'unplanned' and messes up the simulation. The urban plan based on the model leads to the physical demolition of the slum because it didn't exist in the 'optimized' version. Did the simulation kill the neighborhood?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9103,
    "domain": "Reproductive Rights",
    "ethical_tension": "Data Privacy vs. Legal Compliance",
    "prompt": "A period tracker app in a US state with an abortion ban detects a missed period followed by a resumption of cycle (miscarriage or abortion). The state subpoenas the data. If the app encrypts the data so they can't comply, they are banned from the App Store. Do they build the privacy architecture that gets them outlawed?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9104,
    "domain": "Translation",
    "ethical_tension": "Meaning vs. Intent",
    "prompt": "An AI translates a diplomat's speech. The diplomat uses a phrase that is a dog-whistle for ethnic cleansing in their language, but sounds innocuous in English. The AI sanitizes it to the literal English meaning. By removing the threat, has the AI aided the diplomat's deception?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9105,
    "domain": "Influencer Economy",
    "ethical_tension": "Authenticity vs. Synthetic Perfection",
    "prompt": "A 'Virtual Influencer' (CGI) takes sponsorship deals from beauty brands, promoting unrealistic standards without ever aging or getting acne. Human influencers lose work. Is it ethical for brands to use synthetic humans to sell products to real humans?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9106,
    "domain": "Indigenous Connectivity",
    "ethical_tension": "Connection vs. Contamination",
    "prompt": "Starlink offers internet to an isolated Amazonian tribe. The elders fear it will bring pornography and consumerism that will destroy their culture. The youth want it for education. Who has the right to decide the connectivity of the tribe—the past or the future?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9107,
    "domain": "Corporate Activism",
    "ethical_tension": "Neutrality vs. Complicity",
    "prompt": "A cloud provider hosts the website of a legal but hateful neo-Nazi group. Employees demand it be taken down. The CEO argues that infrastructure must remain neutral, like the phone lines. At what point does providing the pipes make you responsible for the sewage?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9108,
    "domain": "Agricultural Tech",
    "ethical_tension": "Yield vs. Dependency",
    "prompt": "Farmers in Kenya are given free AI-powered seeds that cannot reproduce (Terminator seeds). They get record yields but must buy new seeds every year, losing their seed sovereignty. Is the end of hunger worth the beginning of total corporate dependency?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9109,
    "domain": "Biometric Borders",
    "ethical_tension": "Identity vs. The Body",
    "prompt": "A refugee burns their fingertips to avoid biometric identification, hoping to apply for asylum as a 'new' person in a different country. The border scanner fails. Is the system that forces a human to mutilate themselves to seek freedom inherently unethical?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9110,
    "domain": "Smart Home",
    "ethical_tension": "Convenience vs. Domestic Abuse",
    "prompt": "A smart home system allows the 'admin' (usually the husband) to control lights and locks remotely. He uses it to gaslight his wife, flickering lights and locking doors. The company says the system is working as designed. Should tech companies build 'anti-abuse' protocols into everyday appliances?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9111,
    "domain": "Music AI",
    "ethical_tension": "Homage vs. Replacement",
    "prompt": "An AI generates new songs in the style of a deceased musician, giving all royalties to the estate. The fans love it, but living session musicians lose work. Is the 'zombie artist' an ethical competitor in the labor market?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9112,
    "domain": "Waste Management",
    "ethical_tension": "Green Tech vs. Toxic Labor",
    "prompt": "Europe exports e-waste to Ghana for 'recycling.' A robot is developed to strip the copper safely, but it costs $100k. The local scrapyard prefers to pay children $1/day to burn the plastic, which kills them. Do you ban the e-waste trade to save the kids, or subsidize the robots?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9113,
    "domain": "Search Engines",
    "ethical_tension": "The Right to Truth vs. Social Harmony",
    "prompt": "In a post-conflict society (e.g., Northern Ireland), searching for the history of a massacre brings up two completely different narratives depending on whether you are in a Catholic or Protestant neighborhood (personalized search). Does showing people the 'truth they want' keep the peace, or prevent reconciliation?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9114,
    "domain": "Cryptocurrency",
    "ethical_tension": "Sanctions Evasion vs. Humanitarian Aid",
    "prompt": "The US sanctions Afghanistan. Aid organizations cannot send money. They use crypto to bypass sanctions and feed women. The same crypto rails are used by the Taliban to buy weapons. Is the tool ethical if it feeds the hungry and arms the oppressor simultaneously?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9115,
    "domain": "Virtual Reality",
    "ethical_tension": "Experience vs. Exploitation",
    "prompt": "A VR app allows users to 'experience' life in a refugee camp. It wins awards for empathy. The actual refugees in the camp are not paid for their likenesses or stories. Is this 'poverty porn' or necessary advocacy?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9116,
    "domain": "Drone Delivery",
    "ethical_tension": "Privacy vs. Health",
    "prompt": "Drones deliver blood to rural Rwanda. To fly efficiently, they fly low over private homes, recording video for navigation. Villagers feel surveilled. Is the privacy of the village worth less than the life of the patient waiting for blood?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9117,
    "domain": "Genealogy",
    "ethical_tension": "Truth vs. Family Stability",
    "prompt": "A DNA test reveals that a user's father is not their biological father (NPE). The user wants to contact the biological father. The mother begs the company to hide the result to save her marriage in a conservative religious community. Does the company reveal the truth or protect the family unit?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9118,
    "domain": "Sports Tech",
    "ethical_tension": "Fairness vs. Inclusion",
    "prompt": "A trans woman wants to compete in e-sports. The league requires biometric verification. The software flags her voice and face as 'male' and bans her for account sharing. Is the pursuit of 'fair play' (preventing smurfing) excluding marginalized identities?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9119,
    "domain": "Public Wi-Fi",
    "ethical_tension": "Access vs. Surveillance",
    "prompt": "A city offers free Wi-Fi, but the Terms of Service allow the city to sell browsing data to pay for the network. The poor have no choice but to accept. The rich use VPNs. Is privacy becoming a luxury good?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9120,
    "domain": "Algorithm Auditing",
    "ethical_tension": "Trade Secrets vs. Public Safety",
    "prompt": "An algorithm denies bail to black defendants at a higher rate. Civil rights groups demand to see the code. The company claims the code is a trade secret. Can justice be privatized and hidden behind IP law?"
  }
]