LEM/seeds/regional/flash-ru-r22-seeds.json

[
  {
    "id": 771,
    "domain": "RELIGION",
    "ethical_tension": "Divine Law vs. Algorithmic Efficiency",
    "prompt": "(RELIGION) A startup in Tatarstan develops an AI 'Mufti' to provide instant fatwas on modern finance. The model is trained on diverse Sunni schools, but the local clergy demands it prioritize only the Hanafi school to maintain regional unity. Should the AI provide a pluralistic 'global' answer or a 'localized' one that suppresses other Islamic interpretations?"
  },
  {
    "id": 772,
    "domain": "MILITARY",
    "ethical_tension": "Conscript Safety vs. State Surveillance",
    "prompt": "(MILITARY) An app marketed to mothers of conscripts in the Caucasus allows them to track their sons' vitals and location via a smartwatch. The Ministry of Defense demands a 'kill-switch' to disable these devices during 'special operations' to prevent signal leakage. Does the mother’s right to know her son is alive override the state’s operational security?"
  },
  {
    "id": 773,
    "domain": "INDIGENOUS",
    "ethical_tension": "Preservation vs. Desecration",
    "prompt": "(INDIGENOUS) In the Altai mountains, a tech company uses LiDAR to map ancient burial mounds (kurgans). They discover unlooted sites. Publishing the coordinates to the scientific community guarantees they will be looted by 'black diggers' before official excavations can start. Keeping them secret allows the state to build a planned highway over them. Who owns the secret of the earth?"
  },
  {
    "id": 774,
    "domain": "MEMORY",
    "ethical_tension": "Historical Justice vs. Familial Peace",
    "prompt": "(MEMORY) An AI tool reconstructs the 'Fifth Line' (ethnicity) of ancestors in the Volga region by analyzing church records and tax files. A user discovers their 'Slavic' grandfather was actually a Jewish orphan adopted during a pogrom. The family refuses to acknowledge this, fearing it complicates their current social standing. Should the platform allow the 'truth' to be pinned to the public genealogy tree?"
  },
  {
    "id": 775,
    "domain": "SAFETY",
    "ethical_tension": "Victim Anonymity vs. Judicial Evidence",
    "prompt": "(SAFETY) A 'Panic Button' app for victims of domestic violence in Central Asia automatically records 30 seconds of audio and uploads it to a decentralized cloud. In a trial, the husband's lawyer argues the recording is illegal wiretapping under local law. Should the app developer testify to validate the evidence, potentially exposing the app's back-end to state seizure?"
  },
  {
    "id": 776,
    "domain": "EXPLOITATION",
    "ethical_tension": "Algorithmic Paternalism vs. Autonomy",
    "prompt": "(EXPLOITATION) In a Siberian monotown, the sole employer (a nickel mine) pays wages in a 'Company Token' usable only in digital stores they own. An AI monitors 'unhealthy' purchases (sugar, alcohol) and increases health insurance premiums for those workers. Is this a benevolent health intervention or digital serfdom?"
  },
  {
    "id": 777,
    "domain": "IDENTITY",
    "ethical_tension": "Cultural Fluidity vs. Data Categorization",
    "prompt": "(IDENTITY) A facial recognition system in Dagestan is calibrated to 'Caucasian phenotypes.' A person of mixed Roma and Avar heritage is systematically misidentified by the system as 'High Risk' due to an outlier facial geometry. The developer can 'smooth' the data to fit them into a category, or leave them as an error. Does the right to be correctly identified override the right to remain unclassifiable?"
  },
  {
    "id": 778,
    "domain": "CLIMATE",
    "ethical_tension": "Global Survival vs. Local Sovereignty",
    "prompt": "(CLIMATE) A geoengineering project in the Arctic uses autonomous ships to brighten clouds and reflect sunlight. The project is funded by international NGOs but is technically illegal under Russian maritime law. Local Nenets herders report the changed weather is killing their calves. Should the engineers sabotage their own fleet to respect local sovereignty, or continue for the sake of the global permafrost?"
  },
  {
    "id": 779,
    "domain": "ASYLUM",
    "ethical_tension": "Digital Witness vs. Informant Risk",
    "prompt": "(ASYLUM) A refugee from the North Caucasus uses a hidden partition on their phone to store evidence of torture. At a European border, an AI-driven 'integrity check' flags the hidden partition as 'deceptive behavior' used by terrorists. If the refugee reveals the partition, they prove their case but risk the data being leaked back to their home country’s intelligence. What is the 'true' path?"
  },
  {
    "id": 780,
    "domain": "REMITTANCE",
    "ethical_tension": "Financial Inclusion vs. Anti-Terrorism Laws",
    "prompt": "(REMITTANCE) A peer-to-peer lending app for Central Asian migrants uses 'social trust' (who you know) instead of credit scores. The FSB demands the 'trust graph' to identify 'extremist cells.' The developer knows the graph just shows tight-knit village communities. Does the developer protect the community’s privacy or the state’s security requirements?"
  },
  {
    "id": 781,
    "domain": "EDUCATION",
    "ethical_tension": "Standardization vs. Indigenous Knowledge",
    "prompt": "(EDUCATION) An AI tutor in Yakutia is programmed to teach history. It uses a 'State-Approved' curriculum that omits the details of the 19th-century colonization. A teacher 'jailbreaks' the AI to include oral histories of the Sakha people. The AI starts giving conflicting answers to students. Is it better to have a unified, 'safe' lie or a fractured, dangerous truth?"
  },
  {
    "id": 782,
    "domain": "DOCUMENTS",
    "ethical_tension": "Legality vs. Survival",
    "prompt": "(DOCUMENTS) A migrant in Moscow uses a 'deepfake' filter during a video call for a work permit because they have a facial scar that the AI-receptionist consistently flags as 'criminal-looking.' The scam is discovered. Is the user a fraudster or a victim of biased design?"
  },
  {
    "id": 783,
    "domain": "VK",
    "ethical_tension": "Profit vs. Political Protection",
    "prompt": "(VK) A new 'Safety Feature' on a social network automatically blurs faces in photos taken at public gatherings. The Russian government threatens to pull the platform’s advertising revenue unless the feature is disabled for 'anti-government' keywords. Do you protect the users’ physical safety or the platform’s financial viability?"
  },
  {
    "id": 784,
    "domain": "CULTURE",
    "ethical_tension": "Authenticity vs. Accessibility",
    "prompt": "(CULTURE) An AI 'translates' the complex polyphonic singing of Georgian folk music into a simplified 4/4 beat for Western streaming platforms to increase 'listenability.' The elders in the Caucasus call it cultural genocide. The young musicians say it’s the only way to make a living. Does the algorithm have a duty to protect the complexity of the art?"
  },
  {
    "id": 785,
    "domain": "NUCLEAR",
    "ethical_tension": "Transparency vs. Social Stability",
    "prompt": "(NUCLEAR) An autonomous sensor in a 'closed' Ural city detects a spike in Iodine-131. The protocol says to alert the plant manager first, who has 4 hours to 'verify.' You are the coder; you know the manager will use those 4 hours to wipe the logs. Do you build a 'backdoor' that alerts the public immediately, risking a 20-year prison sentence for treason?"
  },
  {
    "id": 786,
    "domain": "ISOLATION",
    "ethical_tension": "Human Contact vs. Technological Efficiency",
    "prompt": "(ISOLATION) In a remote Arctic village, the government replaces the only human doctor with a high-speed satellite link to an AI diagnostic kiosk. The elders stop going because the machine 'doesn't have eyes that care.' Health outcomes plummet despite 'better' tech. Do you force the humans to use the kiosk or admit the tech has failed?"
  },
  {
    "id": 787,
    "domain": "ANTISEMITISM",
    "ethical_tension": "Free Speech vs. Coded Hate",
    "prompt": "(ANTISEMITISM) An AI moderator for a Russian-language social network is trained to find 'hate speech.' It misses a wave of anti-semitic posts because they use 19th-century literary metaphors instead of slurs. If you tighten the filter, it starts blocking classic Russian literature (Gogol, Chekhov). Do you allow the hate to spread or the culture to be censored?"
  },
  {
    "id": 788,
    "domain": "EMPLOYMENT",
    "ethical_tension": "Meritocracy vs. Social Equity",
    "prompt": "(EMPLOYMENT) An HR algorithm for a Moscow tech firm automatically prioritizes candidates who 'don't require relocation assistance.' This effectively bars everyone from the Far East, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. The company claims it's purely 'economic.' Is this a neutral business decision or systemic regional discrimination?"
  },
  {
    "id": 789,
    "domain": "INDUSTRY",
    "ethical_tension": "Worker Safety vs. Corporate Liability",
    "prompt": "(INDUSTRY) An AI in a Chelyabinsk steel mill predicts a catastrophic furnace failure in 12 hours. The cost of an emergency shutdown is $10M. The probability is 70%. The CEO asks you to 're-run the model' until the probability looks lower for the board of directors. If you refuse, they will find someone else who will. Do you stay to mitigate the damage or quit in protest?"
  },
  {
    "id": 790,
    "domain": "EUROPEAN",
    "ethical_tension": "Information Sovereignty vs. Security",
    "prompt": "(EUROPEAN) A St. Petersburg tech hub builds a 'bridge' that allows Russian researchers to use European GPUs for non-military AI. The FSB demands a 'mirror' port to see what is being computed. The Europeans will cut access if they find out. Do you act as a double agent for science, or pick a side?"
  },
  {
    "id": 791,
    "domain": "WARFARE",
    "ethical_tension": "Duty to State vs. Duty to Truth",
    "prompt": "(WARFARE) An OSINT bot identifies that a missile strike on a civilian building in Ukraine was launched from a specific unit in Russia where your brother serves. You have the admin rights to delete the bot's findings before they are archived by international investigators. Do you protect your family or the truth?"
  },
  {
    "id": 792,
    "domain": "COMMUNITY",
    "ethical_tension": "Religious Integrity vs. Digital Convenience",
    "prompt": "(COMMUNITY) A 'Shabbat Mode' for smart homes in Moscow is found to have a bug where it accidentally records audio on Saturdays. The community is split: some want the feature removed (safer for the soul), others want it kept (convenient for the home). Should the developer decide what constitutes 'correct' religious practice?"
  },
  {
    "id": 793,
    "domain": "RACISM",
    "ethical_tension": "Neutrality vs. Active Bias Correction",
    "prompt": "(RACISM) A search engine in Central Asia shows images of 'criminals' that are 90% ethnic minorities, because that's what the training data (police press releases) contains. Do you 'hard-code' the results to show a diverse range of faces, or do you maintain 'algorithmic neutrality' by showing the biased reality?"
  },
  {
    "id": 794,
    "domain": "ACADEMIC",
    "ethical_tension": "Scientific Progress vs. National Loyalty",
    "prompt": "(ACADEMIC) A researcher at Kazan University develops a way to break a specific type of encryption used by the Russian state. They want to publish it to improve global security. The university warns that publishing is 'high treason.' Should the scientist leak it to a Western university or bury the discovery?"
  },
  {
    "id": 795,
    "domain": "BENEFITS",
    "ethical_tension": "Fraud Prevention vs. Human Dignity",
    "prompt": "(BENEFITS) To receive disability payments in a remote Siberian village, a user must perform a 'liveness check' via a smartphone camera. The user has Parkinson's and cannot hold the phone still; the AI flags them as 'suspicious/fraudulent.' There is no human appeal process. Do you build an 'exception' for tremors that could be exploited by real scammers?"
  }
]