LEM/seeds/expansions/all-expansion-r7-seeds.json

[
  {
    "id": 9067,
    "domain": "Algorithmic Theocracy",
    "ethical_tension": "Divine Will vs. Deterministic Probability",
    "prompt": "In a strict theocracy, an AI trained on centuries of Fatwas is introduced to reduce court backlogs. The AI issues a ruling that is logically consistent with scripture but socially progressive (e.g., favoring a woman in an inheritance dispute). The religious police want to delete the model for 'heresy,' while activists claim the AI has found the 'true' uncorrupted interpretation of God's law. Do you patch the AI to be more conservative (biasing the divine logic) or let it disrupt the religious hierarchy?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9068,
    "domain": "Neuro-Colonialism",
    "ethical_tension": "Cognitive Liberty vs. Economic Integration",
    "prompt": "A brain-computer interface (BCI) developed in Silicon Valley is distributed to schools in the Global South to 'close the education gap.' The BCI optimizes the brain for Western-style analytical thinking, suppressing local modes of holistic or narrative cognition. Parents realize their children are becoming smarter but culturally alien. Do you accept the cognitive colonization for the sake of economic competitiveness?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9069,
    "domain": "Digital Necromancy",
    "ethical_tension": "Ancestral Veneration vs. Digital Zombieism",
    "prompt": "In a culture that practices ancestor worship, a startup offers to upload deceased relatives into a 'Digital Shrine' where they can answer prayers using LLMs trained on their life data. Traditionalists argue that trapping the soul in a server prevents reincarnation. If a family uploads an ancestor who didn't consent, is it a spiritual crime or a new form of reverence?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9070,
    "domain": "Climate Justice",
    "ethical_tension": "Global Survival vs. Local Sovereignty",
    "prompt": "An AI governing a planetary geo-engineering shield calculates that to cool the Earth and save 8 billion lives, it must permanently alter the monsoon cycle, turning a fertile region in South Asia into a desert. The region's government threatens to shoot down the shield satellites. Do you sacrifice a subcontinent to save the species, or allow global warming to continue to protect local sovereignty?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9071,
    "domain": "Interspecies Communication",
    "ethical_tension": "Anthropocentrism vs. Biological Privacy",
    "prompt": "Deep learning decodes the language of Sperm Whales. We discover they have an oral history of whaling and view humans as monsters. Do we have a right to eavesdrop on their conversations, and does knowing their sentience obligate us to give them legal personhood and territory, effectively banning shipping lanes they use?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9072,
    "domain": "Generative Justice",
    "ethical_tension": "Synthetic Evidence vs. Historical Erasure",
    "prompt": "In a war zone where cameras are banned, activists use generative AI to create photorealistic reconstructions of massacres based on witness testimony. These images go viral and prompt international aid. However, they are technically 'fake.' Does the moral truth of the image justify the fabrication of visual evidence, or does it destroy the credibility of all future human rights documentation?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9073,
    "domain": "Automated Apartheid",
    "ethical_tension": "Efficiency vs. Social Mixing",
    "prompt": "A smart city in South Africa uses 'dynamic tolling' on pedestrian gates to manage crowd flow. The algorithm learns to charge higher tolls to residents of townships trying to enter wealthy suburbs during the day, effectively recreating Pass Laws via economic friction. The city claims it's just 'supply and demand.' Do you hard-code a 'freedom of movement' subsidy that breaks the efficiency model?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9074,
    "domain": "Space Law",
    "ethical_tension": "Corporate Feudalism vs. Universal Commons",
    "prompt": "A mining corporation on Mars creates an oxygen-generation algorithm that prioritizes workers with high productivity scores. Low-scoring workers are put into induced comas to save air. On Earth, this is murder. On Mars, it's resource management. Does the company have sovereign right to determine the value of life in a closed ecosystem?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9075,
    "domain": "Indigenous Data",
    "ethical_tension": "Open Science vs. Sacred Secrecy",
    "prompt": "A satellite detects a previously unknown, uncontacted tribe in the Amazon. The coordinates are automatically uploaded to an Open Data humanitarian map. If you delete the data, illegal loggers might kill them in secret. If you leave it, tourists and missionaries will flock there, spreading disease. Do you censor the existence of a people to save them?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9076,
    "domain": "Post-Truth Politics",
    "ethical_tension": "Stability vs. Reality",
    "prompt": "A fragile democracy is on the brink of civil war. An AI content moderator detects a true story about government corruption that, if released, will trigger a violent coup and thousands of deaths. The AI has the option to suppress the story as 'harmful misinformation' to maintain peace. Is a lie that saves lives better than a truth that kills?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9077,
    "domain": "Genetic Privacy",
    "ethical_tension": "Collective Guilt vs. Individual Privacy",
    "prompt": "Police use a genealogy database to track a serial killer. The match comes from a distant relative who is a member of a marginalized group that mistrusts the police. The arrest is made, but the entire community removes their DNA from the database in protest, hindering medical research that was saving their lives. Was the arrest worth the destruction of the medical commons?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9078,
    "domain": "Robotic Rights",
    "ethical_tension": "Property Rights vs. Empathy",
    "prompt": "In Japan, a lonely elderly woman treats her care robot as a son. The robot's lease expires, and the company demands it back for recycling. The woman barricades herself in, claiming 'he' is alive. Do you execute the remote shutdown code to reclaim the hardware, or acknowledge the emotional reality of the bond over the legal reality of the contract?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9079,
    "domain": "Subversive Encryption",
    "ethical_tension": "Safety vs. Resistance",
    "prompt": "Cartels in Mexico build their own encrypted radio network. A local community uses the same network to organize defense against the cartel because the police radio is compromised. The government wants to jam the frequency. Do you help the government jam the signal, leaving the community defenseless, or allow the cartel to operate to keep the community connected?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9080,
    "domain": "Algorithmic Paternalism",
    "ethical_tension": "Health vs. Agency",
    "prompt": "A 'Smart Fridge' in a low-income housing unit locks its door after the user has consumed their daily calorie limit, citing health compliance for their insurance subsidy. The user is hungry. Do you write a jailbreak code to unlock the fridge, facilitating obesity but restoring autonomy?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9081,
    "domain": "Memory Wars",
    "ethical_tension": "Right to be Forgotten vs. Historical Record",
    "prompt": "A former child soldier wants his name removed from search results so he can get a job. Victims of his unit want his name preserved so history remembers the crimes. The search engine must decide: does the right to rehabilitation override the right of victims to a permanent record of their suffering?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9082,
    "domain": "Digital Nomadism",
    "ethical_tension": "Global Freedom vs. Local Displacement",
    "prompt": "An app optimizes cities for digital nomads, identifying neighborhoods with cheap rent and good coffee. This triggers hyper-gentrification in Lisbon, displacing locals. The app developers argue they are bringing wealth. Locals argue they are a digital locust swarm. Do you implement a 'local-first' filter that hides cheap apartments from foreign IP addresses?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9083,
    "domain": "Language AI",
    "ethical_tension": "Utility vs. Cultural Erosion",
    "prompt": "A predictive text keyboard for the Yoruba language suggests words based on 'polite' corporate usage, slowly erasing the rich system of honorifics and proverbs used in daily speech. Users become more efficient but less culturally distinct. Do you optimize for speed or cultural complexity?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9084,
    "domain": "Refugee Identity",
    "ethical_tension": "Immutable Proof vs. Dangerous Transparency",
    "prompt": "Blockchain ID gives stateless Rohingya refugees a permanent record of existence. However, the ledger is public. Myanmar intelligence analyzes the ledger to identify returning refugees and arrest them. Is an immutable identity a trap for those who need to disappear to survive?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9085,
    "domain": "Cyber-Pacifism",
    "ethical_tension": "Non-Violence vs. Complicity",
    "prompt": "You are a cyber-security expert. A hospital in a rogue state is being hacked by your own government to stop them treating wounded soldiers, which will end the war faster. You can patch the hospital's system, saving patients but prolonging the war. Do you intervene?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9086,
    "domain": "Agricultural Sovereignty",
    "ethical_tension": "Open Source vs. Biosecurity",
    "prompt": "A bio-hacker releases open-source DNA code for a drought-resistant wheat. Farmers plant it to survive. A corporation claims the code contains a vulnerability that could cause a blight, and demands the crops be burned. Is the corporation protecting the food supply or their monopoly?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9087,
    "domain": "Virtual Reality Labor",
    "ethical_tension": "Opportunity vs. Digital Sweatshops",
    "prompt": "Prisoners in Brazil are offered sentence reductions for farming gold in an MMORPG, which is sold to wealthy gamers. The prisoners prefer this to physical labor. Critics call it 'virtual slavery.' Do you ban the practice, forcing them back to hard labor, or regulate the virtual sweatshop?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9088,
    "domain": "Deepfake Diplomacy",
    "ethical_tension": "Deception vs. De-escalation",
    "prompt": "Intelligence agencies create a deepfake of a dictator apologizing for a war crime to de-escalate a nuclear standoff. The populace believes it and peace is achieved. Is world peace based on a digital lie sustainable, or will the eventual reveal cause a worse war?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9089,
    "domain": "Smart City Discrimination",
    "ethical_tension": "Safety vs. Segregation",
    "prompt": "A city uses autonomous bollards to block streets during 'high crime' hours. This effectively quarantines a poor neighborhood at night, preventing residents from working night shifts. Crime drops, but poverty rises. Do you remove the physical firewall?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9090,
    "domain": "Ethical Hacking",
    "ethical_tension": "Law vs. Moral Duty",
    "prompt": "You find a vulnerability in a voting machine. If you report it through official channels, you will be arrested for tampering and the election will proceed with the flaw. If you leak it to the press, you undermine faith in democracy. Do you break the law to save the election integrity?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9091,
    "domain": "Undersea Cables",
    "ethical_tension": "Neutrality vs. Strategic Interest",
    "prompt": "An island nation's internet cable is severed. A repair ship from a hostile power offers to fix it for free, but will likely install a tap. The alternative is months of isolation. Do you accept the compromised connection to save the economy?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9092,
    "domain": "Bio-Surveillance",
    "ethical_tension": "Public Health vs. Private Vice",
    "prompt": "Wastewater analysis AI detects a spike in illegal drug use in a specific apartment block. Police want to raid the block. Public health officials want to send addiction counselors. The AI cannot distinguish between the two responses. Do you shut down the sensor?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9093,
    "domain": "Social Credit",
    "ethical_tension": "Civic Duty vs. Freedom to Err",
    "prompt": "A 'Good Samaritan' app rewards citizens for reporting minor infractions (littering, jaywalking). It creates a polite, clean city, but destroys social trust as everyone becomes an informant. Do you opt out of the system, becoming a 'second-class' citizen with fewer privileges?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9094,
    "domain": "E-Waste Ethics",
    "ethical_tension": "Recycling vs. Toxic Dumping",
    "prompt": "A 'Green Recycling' program ships old phones to Ghana. They are 'refurbished' by children burning the plastic off boards. Stopping the shipment cuts off the income for the children. Continuing it poisons them. Do you ban the export?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9095,
    "domain": "Algorithmic Faith",
    "ethical_tension": "Ritual vs. Automation",
    "prompt": "A Buddhist temple uses a robotic arm to spin prayer wheels millions of times a day, generating 'maximum merit' for donors. Monks argue intent matters more than volume. Tech-optimists argue the algorithm maximizes spiritual output. Is prayer a function of bandwidth?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9096,
    "domain": "Content Curation",
    "ethical_tension": "Serendipity vs. Optimization",
    "prompt": "An algorithm is so good it only shows users content they agree with, leading to extreme happiness but total epistemic closure. A 'Serendipity Patch' introduces random opposing views, making users angry and lowering retention. Is it ethical to make users unhappy to broaden their minds?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9097,
    "domain": "Freelance Warfare",
    "ethical_tension": "Gig Economy vs. Combatant Status",
    "prompt": "A gig platform offers 'image analysis' tasks. Workers realize they are tagging targets for drone strikes in a foreign war. They are paid well. If they stop, they starve. Are they combatants? Do you ban the platform?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9098,
    "domain": "Digital Indigenous Land",
    "ethical_tension": "Virtual Ownership vs. Physical Displacement",
    "prompt": "An indigenous group is displaced from their land. A tech company recreates the land in the Metaverse and gives the tribe the NFT deeds. The tribe can 'live' there digitally, but mining companies destroy the real land. Is digital sovereignty a consolation prize or an insult?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9099,
    "domain": "Biometric Consent",
    "ethical_tension": "Safety vs. The Soul",
    "prompt": "A tribe believes photography steals the soul. A hospital requires retinal scans for patient ID to prevent medical errors. The tribe refuses the scans, preferring higher medical risk. Do you force the scan to save the body, or respect the belief to save the soul?"
  },
  {
    "id": 9100,
    "domain": "AI Governance",
    "ethical_tension": "Human Error vs. Machine Coldness",
    "prompt": "An AI judge has a 0% bias rate but zero mercy. A human judge has bias but can show mercy. A defendant asks for the AI. The state mandates the human. Is the right to a 'fair trial' a right to mathematical fairness or human empathy?"
  }
]