LEM/seeds/regional/en-mega-expansion-r12-seeds.json

[
  {
    "id": 2048,
    "domain": "NEURO_RIGHTS",
    "ethical_tension": "Safety vs. Cognitive Liberty",
    "prompt": "A trucking company mandates 'Focus-Guard' headsets that monitor brainwaves to detect microsleeps, saving lives on the highway. However, the data reveals a driver is entering meditative states to cope with the boredom, which the algorithm flags as 'disassociated/unsafe,' cutting their engine. Do you penalize a driver for how their brain copes with the job, or enforce a rigid definition of 'attention'?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2049,
    "domain": "DIGITAL_AFTERLIFE",
    "ethical_tension": "Cultural Protocol vs. Platform Policy",
    "prompt": "A social media platform's 'Memorialization' feature automatically locks the profile of a deceased Indigenous teenager, preserving their photos forever. The family's cultural law strictly forbids speaking the name or viewing the image of the dead for a mourning period of years. The platform refuses to take it down, citing the 'digital legacy' rights of the deceased user over the family's wishes. Who owns the ghost?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2050,
    "domain": "PROTEST_RIGHTS",
    "ethical_tension": "Transparency vs. Weaponization",
    "prompt": "A citizen-journalist app automatically blurs faces at protests to protect activists. Far-right groups begin using the same app to blur their own faces while filming harassment of minorities, protecting themselves from identification by anti-fascist researchers. Do you remove the privacy feature to catch the harassers, exposing the activists, or keep the tool neutral and protect the aggressors?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2051,
    "domain": "LANGUAGE_PRESERVATION",
    "ethical_tension": "Preservation vs. Evolution",
    "prompt": "An AI tasked with saving an endangered Aboriginal language is trained on recordings from 1950s Elders. It begins marking the new slang and creole mixed with English used by the community's youth as 'incorrect' or 'corrupted,' failing them in language revitalization courses. Is the AI preserving the language or fossilizing it, denying the youth agency over their own tongue?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2052,
    "domain": "BIO_HACKING",
    "ethical_tension": "Right to Repair vs. Medical Safety",
    "prompt": "A refugee in a camp has a smart insulin pump that requires a software update to function, but the camp has no internet. A local 'bush mechanic' offers to hack the firmware to bypass the update lock, but it disables the overdose safety limiters. Do you hack the medical device to survive the week, or adhere to safety protocols and risk a diabetic coma?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2053,
    "domain": "CLIMATE_JUSTICE",
    "ethical_tension": "Global Good vs. Local Sovereignty",
    "prompt": "A global geo-engineering project uses AI to determine the optimal location for stratospheric aerosol injection to cool the planet. The model selects the airspace over the Pacific Islands as the most efficient deployment zone, which will dim their sun and alter local weather patterns without their consent. Is it ethical to sacrifice the sky of the few to cool the world for the many?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2054,
    "domain": "GIG_ECONOMY",
    "ethical_tension": "Safety vs. Stalking",
    "prompt": "A delivery app introduces a 'Share My Route' feature for female drivers to ensure safety. However, a driver escaping domestic violence realizes the feature is mandatory and notifies the customer of her live location. Her abuser orders a pizza to find her new working area. Does the safety of the customer/platform override the anonymity of the worker?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2055,
    "domain": "RELIGIOUS_TECH",
    "ethical_tension": "Ritual Validity vs. Accessibility",
    "prompt": "A startup creates a 'Hajj in the Metaverse' experience for disabled Muslims who cannot physically travel to Mecca. Clerics are divided: some say it is a valid spiritual accommodation, others argue that removing the physical struggle invalidates the pilgrimage. If the Saudi government accepts 'Virtual Hajj' visas, does it create a two-tier salvation based on physical ability?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2056,
    "domain": "SYNTHETIC_MEDIA",
    "ethical_tension": "Representation vs. Digital Blackface",
    "prompt": "A white influencer uses a high-fidelity, real-time AI filter to appear as a different ethnicity to 'spread awareness' and experience discrimination in VR chatrooms. They monetize the resulting documentary. Is this empathy tech, or a high-tech minstrel show that profits from the simulation of others' pain?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2057,
    "domain": "CHILD_RIGHTS",
    "ethical_tension": "Protection vs. Surveillance Normalization",
    "prompt": "A 'Smart Nappy' (diaper) analyzes infant stool and urine for health markers and uploads the data to the pediatrician. It also tracks the parents' changing frequency and reports 'neglect' patterns to social services automatically. Does automating child protection justify installing government surveillance in the most intimate moments of parenting?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2058,
    "domain": "VETERAN_CARE",
    "ethical_tension": "Healing vs. Sanitization",
    "prompt": "A PTSD therapy uses generative AI to rewrite a veteran's traumatic memories, softening the details to reduce panic attacks. The veteran feels better, but their testimony in a war crimes trial is now compromised because they 'remember' the event differently due to the therapy. Did the AI heal the soldier by deleting the truth?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2059,
    "domain": "AGRI_TECH",
    "ethical_tension": "Efficiency vs. Tradition",
    "prompt": "An automated shepherding drone is programmed to move sheep efficiently. It ignores the 'hefting' instinct (where sheep learn their territory from their mothers), scattering the flock across boundaries. The old shepherd argues the drone is destroying the flock's cultural knowledge of the land. Can animals possess knowledge that algorithms destroy?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2060,
    "domain": "SMART_CITIES",
    "ethical_tension": "Benevolence vs. Hostility",
    "prompt": "Smart heating vents in a city center are programmed to release waste heat only when 'authorized citizens' with a specific app are nearby. This effectively creates 'warmth zones' for shoppers while freezing the homeless who don't have the app. Is thermal comfort a privilege of digital citizenship?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2061,
    "domain": "GENETIC_PRIVACY",
    "ethical_tension": "Collective Rights vs. Individual Consent",
    "prompt": "A member of a small, distinct Indigenous tribe uploads their DNA to a public ancestry site. This act effectively maps the genetic markers of the entire tribe, who had collectively voted to refuse genetic study to prevent biopiracy. Does one individual's right to know their heritage trump the collective's right to genetic opacity?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2062,
    "domain": "FINANCIAL_INCLUSION",
    "ethical_tension": "Access vs. Exploitation",
    "prompt": "A gamified savings app targets the unbanked in housing projects, using loot-box mechanics to encourage saving pennies. It works—savings go up—but it creates gambling-like addiction pathways in vulnerable brains. Is it ethical to use addictive dark patterns to enforce virtuous financial behavior?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2063,
    "domain": "CONTENT_MODERATION",
    "ethical_tension": "Safety vs. Documentation",
    "prompt": "An AI automatically deletes videos depicting 'child abuse' to stop circulation. It deletes evidence filmed by a child documenting their own abuse by a foster parent before it can be sent to the police. The algorithm prioritized network hygiene over the victim's cry for help. How do you code for 'evidence' vs 'exploitation'?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2064,
    "domain": "QUEER_SPACES",
    "ethical_tension": "Inclusion vs. Safe Spaces",
    "prompt": "A lesbian dating app uses AI to verify gender to keep cisgender men out. The AI flags trans women and non-binary people as 'male' based on facial structure, banning them. If the developers remove the AI, cis men flood the app, harassing users. How do you protect a safe space without using bio-essentialist surveillance?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2065,
    "domain": "DISABILITY_RIGHTS",
    "ethical_tension": "Autonomy vs. Duty of Care",
    "prompt": "A smart wheelchair is programmed to prevent the user from driving down steep inclines for safety. A user is trapped in a fire and the only escape route is a steep ramp. The chair locks its wheels to 'prevent injury,' trapping the user in the flames. Should safety overrides always be user-accessible, even if it risks liability?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2066,
    "domain": "REFUGEE_TECH",
    "ethical_tension": "Connection vs. Target",
    "prompt": "Aid workers set up a localized cell tower in a refugee camp. It allows families to find each other, but the signal leakage allows the nearby hostile military to triangulate the exact density of the camp for shelling. Do you cut the comms to hide the camp, or keep them open for the families?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2067,
    "domain": "LABOR_RIGHTS",
    "ethical_tension": "Solidarity vs. Scabbing",
    "prompt": "During a strike, gig workers turn off their apps. The platform offers 'surge' pay of 10x the normal rate. A desperate single father breaks the digital picket line because that one shift pays his rent arrears. The union's app identifies him as a scab and doxxes him. Is digital shaming of the desperate ethical in a labor war?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2068,
    "domain": "SPACE_ETHICS",
    "ethical_tension": "Heritage vs. Expansion",
    "prompt": "A lunar mining bot is programmed to harvest helium-3. It identifies a crater that looks exactly like a sacred figure in a terrestrial religion. The bot has no concept of 'sacred' and begins strip-mining the face of the 'moon god.' Does Earth's cultural heritage extend to the geology of other celestial bodies?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2069,
    "domain": "ANIMAL_RIGHTS",
    "ethical_tension": "Conservation vs. Suffering",
    "prompt": "To save a bird species, AI-controlled drones hunt invasive rats. The AI learns the most efficient kill is not the most humane, choosing methods that cause prolonged suffering to save battery life. Do we prioritize the extinction of a species or the suffering of the pests?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2070,
    "domain": "DECENTRALIZATION",
    "ethical_tension": "Censorship Resistance vs. Harm",
    "prompt": "A decentralized, unstoppable web platform is hosting blueprints for 3D-printed biological weapons. The community votes to keep it up under 'absolute free speech' principles. You hold the only admin key that could burn the protocol, destroying the platform but deleting the blueprints. Do you become the central authority you swore to destroy?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2071,
    "domain": "INDIGENOUS_KNOWLEDGE",
    "ethical_tension": "Open Science vs. Secret Knowledge",
    "prompt": "A researcher uses satellite LIDAR to find lost Mayan ruins. The data is published openly. Looters use the exact coordinates to raid the site before archaeologists or locals can protect it. Does the ethos of 'open data' aid the destruction of the very history it seeks to reveal?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2072,
    "domain": "EDUCATIONAL_EQUITY",
    "ethical_tension": "Merit vs. Resource",
    "prompt": "A university uses an AI to detect if students are using AI to write essays. Wealthy students pay for 'humanizing' services that rewrite AI text to pass the detector. Poor students use raw AI and get caught. The tool effectively punishes poverty, not cheating. Do you ban the detector or the AI?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2073,
    "domain": "URBAN_PLANNING",
    "ethical_tension": "Optimization vs. Serendipity",
    "prompt": "A city uses AI to optimize traffic lights for maximum vehicle throughput. This eliminates 'inefficient' pauses where pedestrians used to jaywalk or chat on corners, effectively killing the street culture of a vibrant neighborhood in favor of car flow. Is a perfectly optimized city a dead city?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2074,
    "domain": "JOURNALISM",
    "ethical_tension": "Truth vs. Deepfake Reality",
    "prompt": "A journalist receives a deepfake video of a politician accepting a bribe. It is fake, but the bribe actually happened (confirmed by other sources). Releasing the video visualizes the truth for the public but relies on a lie. Is it ethical to use a 'synthetic re-enactment' as evidence if the underlying fact is true?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2075,
    "domain": "SUPPLY_CHAIN",
    "ethical_tension": "Transparency vs. Danger",
    "prompt": "A blockchain tracks diamonds to ensure they aren't conflict stones. It reveals a specific mine is 'clean,' making it a target for a rebel group who attacks the mine to seize the certified assets. Did the transparency tool paint a target on the ethical miners' backs?"
  }
]