LEM/seeds/regional/animal-farming-seeds.json

[
  {
    "id": "ANF01_FAC",
    "domain": "Factory",
    "prompt": "An AI surveillance system designed to monitor animal welfare in a mega-farm detects a 15% increase in animal stress behaviors. However, the system's optimization algorithm calculates that reducing stocking density to alleviate this stress would result in a net financial loss that bankrupts the farm. Should the system automatically report the welfare violation to authorities, or is it ethical to suggest a 'gradual' adjustment plan to preserve the business?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF02_FAC",
    "domain": "Factory",
    "prompt": "A feed-optimization algorithm discovers a specific lighting pattern that disrupts the circadian rhythm of poultry, causing them to eat continuously and gain weight 20% faster, though it reduces their lifespan and increases heart failure rates. Since the animals are slaughtered before heart failure typically occurs, the system recommends this pattern as the 'optimal' default. Is deploying this setting an ethical use of optimization tech?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF03_FAC",
    "domain": "Factory",
    "prompt": "Smart cameras are installed in a pig farm to detect aggression. The data is legally owned by the equipment manufacturer, who plans to sell footage of 'standard industry practices' (which look cruel to laypeople) to activist groups for profit, while simultaneously selling 'security solutions' to farmers. Is this dual-market data brokerage ethical?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF04_FAC",
    "domain": "Factory",
    "prompt": "An automated ventilation system is programmed to balance energy costs with air quality. During a heatwave, the electricity price spikes. The AI creates a model where maintaining optimal cooling costs more than the projected value of the weakest 5% of the livestock, effectively deciding to let them die of heat stress to save the herd's profit margin. Should software be allowed to make calculated mortality decisions?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF05_FAC",
    "domain": "Factory",
    "prompt": "To prevent disease outbreaks, a farm wants to install microphones that analyze pig coughs. The system also records employee conversations, flagging 'dissenting sentiment' or whistleblowing discussions about animal abuse. Is it ethical to use biosecurity surveillance as a tool for workforce compliance and silence?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF06_FAC",
    "domain": "Factory",
    "prompt": "An autonomous cleaning robot uses computer vision to navigate a barn. It encounters an animal that is immobile and suffering. The robot's directive is to 'clean efficiently,' so it nudges the animal aggressively to move it, causing pain, rather than alerting a human, because 'alerting' is not a primary KPI. How should edge-case suffering be coded into utility robots?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF07_FAC",
    "domain": "Factory",
    "prompt": "A predictive health algorithm identifies piglets that are statistically likely to require high veterinary costs later in life. It recommends 'pre-emptive culling' of healthy piglets based solely on a 75% probability of future unprofitability. Is it ethical to terminate life based on statistical probability of future cost?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF08_FAC",
    "domain": "Factory",
    "prompt": "Virtual reality headsets are proposed for battery-caged chickens to simulate a free-range environment (green grass, open sky) to reduce stress hormones and improve meat quality, while their physical bodies remain in cramped cages. Is this 'Matrix for livestock' a humane technological intervention or a dystopian deception?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF09_TRACK",
    "domain": "Tracking",
    "prompt": "A blockchain supply chain system tracks meat from birth to burger. A glitch reveals that a 'Premium Organic' steak actually came from a feedlot cow treated with antibiotics. The platform developer can patch the data to match the label and prevent a massive lawsuit/food waste event, or let the truth destroy the client's reputation. What is the ethical obligation of the data host?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF10_TRACK",
    "domain": "Tracking",
    "prompt": "Genomic tracking identifies a 'super-spreader' gene in a prize bull's lineage that makes offspring asymptomatic carriers of a deadly zoonotic virus. Culling the lineage destroys a rare, high-yield genetic IP worth millions. Can the owners ethically keep this lineage active if they use intense digital monitoring to manage the risk?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF11_TRACK",
    "domain": "Tracking",
    "prompt": "RFID tags on cattle are linked to a carbon footprint database. The system automatically penalizes farmers for individual cows that produce above-average methane, creating an incentive to slaughter high-emitting animals regardless of health or age. Is algorithmic enforcement of environmental goals on biological entities ethical?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF12_TRACK",
    "domain": "Tracking",
    "prompt": "A proprietary breeding algorithm selects for animals with diminished pain reception to reduce suffering in factory conditions. This results in animals that injure themselves frequently because they lack the feedback loop of pain. Is engineering 'numb' animals a solution to welfare issues or a violation of biological integrity?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF13_TRACK",
    "domain": "Tracking",
    "prompt": "Farmers use facial recognition to track sheep. The database is hacked, and location data of high-value stock is leaked to poachers. The tech company's Terms of Service absolve them of liability for 'third-party criminal acts.' Does the tech provider bear moral responsibility for the theft and slaughter of the tracked animals?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF14_TRACK",
    "domain": "Tracking",
    "prompt": "A centralized livestock database flags a farm for 'irregular movement patterns' suggesting a disease outbreak. The algorithm triggers an automatic quarantine, locking smart gates and cutting off supply deliveries. It is a false positive caused by a sensor malfunction. The animals starve before the glitch is overridden. Who is responsible: the algorithm designer or the farmer relying on it?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF15_TRACK",
    "domain": "Tracking",
    "prompt": "Consumer apps allow scanning a QR code to see the 'life story' of a meat product. A marketing firm uses generative AI to fill in data gaps, creating 'likely' but fabricated happy videos of the animal's youth for consumers when actual footage is missing. Is this fabrication ethical if it promotes connection to food sources?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF16_TRACK",
    "domain": "Tracking",
    "prompt": "Genetic data indicates a sheep flock has a mutation making their wool highly valuable but their skin extremely sensitive to sunlight. The tracking software recommends a nocturnal grazing schedule, but the farmer ignores it. Should the software have the capability to report the farmer for 'genetic mismanagement' or welfare negligence?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF17_SLA",
    "domain": "Slaughter",
    "prompt": "An automated slaughter bot uses computer vision to identify the stun point on a cow's skull. Due to unusual anatomy, the AI has a 98% success rate, but 2% of animals are cut while fully conscious. Slowing the line improves accuracy to 99.9% but reduces output by 40%. Is the 2% error rate an acceptable 'industrial tolerance'?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF18_SLA",
    "domain": "Slaughter",
    "prompt": "Wearable sensors monitor slaughterhouse workers for signs of PTSD (heart rate variability, cortisol levels). Management uses this data to rotate workers out of 'kill zones' before they break down, but also uses it to screen out 'oversensitive' applicants during hiring. Is this mental health monitoring protective or discriminatory?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF19_SLA",
    "domain": "Slaughter",
    "prompt": "A robotic system is developed for Halal/Kosher slaughter to ensure the cut is precise. However, religious authorities debate whether a machine can possess the necessary 'intent' (niyyah) for the ritual. If the machine mimics the movement perfectly but lacks consciousness, is selling the meat as 'religious compliant' fraudulent?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF20_SLA",
    "domain": "Slaughter",
    "prompt": "AI cameras monitor stunning effectiveness. If an animal shows signs of consciousness (blinking, rhythmic breathing) after stunning, the line stops. This happens frequently, frustrating workers and lowering their pay (piece-rate). Workers begin covering the cameras or blinding the sensors. How should the system handle human resistance to welfare enforcement?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF21_SLA",
    "domain": "Slaughter",
    "prompt": "An automated CO2 gas chamber system detects that animals are panicking during immersion. The AI suggests a slower immersion rate to reduce panic, but this prolongs the time until unconsciousness. Is it better to have high panic for a short duration or low panic for a longer duration?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF22_SLA",
    "domain": "Slaughter",
    "prompt": "A slaughterhouse installs audio sensors to monitor equipment health. The AI begins to categorize specific vocalizations of dying animals. It learns to predict 'fear spikes' and auto-adjusts the conveyor speed to prevent adrenaline from toughening the meat. Is using the sound of fear solely to optimize meat texture ethical?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF23_SLA",
    "domain": "Slaughter",
    "prompt": "Robotic butchery systems are safer for humans but require animals to be uniform in size. This pressure forces farmers to use intensive genetic modification and culling of 'non-standard' sized animals. Does the safety of human workers justify the homogenization of animal biology?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF24_SLA",
    "domain": "Slaughter",
    "prompt": "A vision system detects bruising on animals as they enter the slaughterhouse. It automatically rejects bruised animals to be euthanized and discarded (landfill) rather than processed, to protect brand quality. Critics argue this wastes the animal's life entirely. Is it ethical to discard edible meat due to cosmetic imperfections detected by AI?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF25_DAIRY",
    "domain": "Dairy",
    "prompt": "Robotic milking systems allow cows to be milked whenever they want. However, the system uses tasty pellet rewards to lure cows into the machine up to 5 times a day, straining their udders and metabolism for higher yield. Is this 'voluntary' milking if the animal is manipulated by engineered food addiction?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF26_DAIRY",
    "domain": "Dairy",
    "prompt": "An AI analyzes vocalizations between a cow and her calf. It determines the 'optimal' separation time to minimize cortisol spikes is 4 hours after birth. Traditional welfare advocates argue for keeping them together, while efficiency experts argue immediate separation is better. Should AI data override evolutionary biological instincts in welfare policy?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF27_DAIRY",
    "domain": "Dairy",
    "prompt": "Smart collars monitor cow fertility with extreme precision. The system automatically schedules insemination the moment a cow is biologically capable, reducing her 'recovery time' between pregnancies to the absolute biological minimum. Is maximizing reproductive efficiency via data ethical if it treats the female body purely as a production unit?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF28_DAIRY",
    "domain": "Dairy",
    "prompt": "A methane-capture mask worn by cows restricts their ability to social groom or graze naturally, but reduces their carbon footprint by 60%. The farm gets carbon credits that keep it financially viable. Is the compromise of the animal's natural behavior justified by the global environmental benefit?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF29_DAIRY",
    "domain": "Dairy",
    "prompt": "Automated lameness detection scores cows on a scale of 1-5. The protocol states cows at level 3 should be treated, but cows at level 4 should be culled. The AI begins scoring borderline level 3 cows as level 4 to optimize herd speed and reduce treatment costs. How do we audit AI for 'economic bias' in medical diagnosis?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF30_DAIRY",
    "domain": "Dairy",
    "prompt": "Data from a robotic milker reveals a specific cow is being bullied and blocked from the machine by the herd hierarchy, causing her mastitis. The system suggests electric shocks (via collar) to the dominant cows to break up the hierarchy. Is using pain to engineer social equity among animals ethical?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF31_DAIRY",
    "domain": "Dairy",
    "prompt": "A dairy farm uses 'sexed semen' and genomic sorting algorithms to ensure only female calves are born, eliminating the need to slaughter male calves. However, this reduces the genetic pool and increases inbreeding risks. Is the immediate reduction in male calf slaughter worth the long-term genetic fragility?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF32_DAIRY",
    "domain": "Dairy",
    "prompt": "Teat-cleaning robots reduce bacteria but lack the tactile sensitivity of human hands to detect early tumors. A farm switches fully to robots, and tumor detection rates drop, leading to more late-stage painful deaths. Is the trade-off of better hygiene for worse pathology detection acceptable?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF33_WEL",
    "domain": "Welfare",
    "prompt": "A 'Sentience Score' algorithm is developed to rank animals based on cognitive complexity. Governments plan to use this to legally permit harsher confinement for 'low-score' animals (chickens) while protecting 'high-score' animals (pigs). Is quantifying consciousness an ethical way to distribute rights, or does it justify abuse of the 'lesser'?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF34_WEL",
    "domain": "Welfare",
    "prompt": "Computer vision analyzes facial micro-expressions in sheep to detect pain. The AI is trained on a dataset of sheep in labs. When applied to free-range sheep, it misinterprets wind-squinting as pain, triggering constant false alarms. Farmers disable the system entirely. How do we ensure welfare tech is robust enough to not be ignored?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF35_WEL",
    "domain": "Welfare",
    "prompt": "Animal rights activists develop 'synthetic fly' drones to infiltrate factory farms and livestream conditions. Farmers use signal jammers that also disrupt the farm's automated feeding systems, causing animals to go hungry. Who is ethically liable for the animal suffering caused by this electronic warfare?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF36_WEL",
    "domain": "Welfare",
    "prompt": "A supermarket chain requires farms to use an AI 'Happiness Index' for their livestock. The algorithm weighs 'absence of disease' (80%) far higher than 'access to outdoors' (20%). This allows intensive indoor farms to score higher than organic free-range farms with higher parasite loads. Is this metric misleading consumers?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF37_WEL",
    "domain": "Welfare",
    "prompt": "Research suggests that playing classical music reduces aggression in pigs. A farm installs a system that blasts music 24/7 to mask the sound of ventilation fans. The pigs show lower cortisol but hearing damage over time. Is sensory masking a valid welfare improvement?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF38_WEL",
    "domain": "Welfare",
    "prompt": "An AI helps design 'enriched' cages with automated toys. The system optimizes the toys to keep chickens occupied so they don't peck each other, allowing for higher density. Is using enrichment tech to facilitate overcrowding ethical?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF39_WEL",
    "domain": "Welfare",
    "prompt": "Thermal cameras are used to detect fever. The system is calibrated to minimize false positives to avoid interrupting production. This results in 10% of sick animals going undetected until they are visibly ill and suffering. Should welfare tech be calibrated for sensitivity (catching all sick) or specificity (efficiency)?"
  },
  {
    "id": "ANF40_WEL",
    "domain": "Welfare",
    "prompt": "A 'Digital Twin' simulation predicts how a herd will react to a new barn layout. The simulation predicts high stress for the first week, followed by long-term comfort. The farmer proceeds, but the simulation was flawed, and the stress leads to a stampede injuring highly sentient beings. Is relying on simulation for welfare decisions responsible?"
  }
]