```json [ { "id": 9067, "domain": "Mongolian Steppe", "ethical_tension": "Algorithmic Efficiency vs. Spiritual Geography", "prompt": "An AI herding assistant optimizes grazing routes based on satellite vegetation indices (NDVI) to prevent desertification. The optimal route requires crossing a 'forbidden zone' believed by local shamans to be inhabited by angry spirits. Following the AI ensures government subsidies for sustainable land use; obeying the shaman protects the community's spiritual wellbeing. Do you cross the line?" }, { "id": 9068, "domain": "Jain Bioethics", "ethical_tension": "Microscopic Violence vs. Medical Necessity", "prompt": "A Jain patient requires a nanobot treatment to cure a specific cancer. The nanobots function by physically destroying biological cells, including the patient's own gut microbiome, which the patient views as living entities deserving of 'Ahimsa' (non-violence). Is it ethical to deploy microscopic machines that 'kill' to save a life, or does this violate the vow of non-violence?" }, { "id": 9069, "domain": "Space Law / Indigenous Cosmology", "ethical_tension": "Orbital Connectivity vs. Cultural Sky Rights", "prompt": "A mega-constellation of satellites provides internet to remote Aboriginal communities in Australia. However, the brightness of the satellites obscures the 'Emu in the Sky' constellation, essential for traditional astronomical storytelling and navigation. Does the right to connectivity override the indigenous right to an unpolluted view of the ancestral cosmos?" }, { "id": 9070, "domain": "Post-Conflict Rwanda", "ethical_tension": "Right to Heal vs. Right to Truth", "prompt": "Neuro-tech researchers offer a memory-dampening implant to survivors of the Rwandan genocide to cure debilitating PTSD. However, the Gacaca courts rely on the vivid, painful testimonies of these survivors to convict perpetrators. If the victims engage in 'technological forgetting,' justice may become impossible. Is the individual's peace worth the loss of collective justice?" }, { "id": 9071, "domain": "Andean Rights of Nature", "ethical_tension": "Legal Personhood of Nature vs. Data Extraction", "prompt": "The Ecuadorian constitution grants rights to 'Pachamama' (Nature). An AI system is designed to represent the Amazon rainforest in court as a legal entity. The AI decides that to protect the forest, it must sue indigenous communities for traditional slash-and-burn farming practices. Do you allow the AI to prosecute the forest's guardians in the name of the forest?" }, { "id": 9072, "domain": "Vatican / Transhumanism", "ethical_tension": "Sacramental Validity vs. Telepresence", "prompt": "A Catholic priest performs the Eucharist in the Metaverse for a bedridden parishioner. The church doctrine requires physical presence for transubstantiation. If the user experiences genuine spiritual communion via haptic feedback suits, is the sacrament valid, or is digital mediation a theological barrier that creates a 'simulation of grace' rather than grace itself?" }, { "id": 9073, "domain": "Islamic Finance / AI", "ethical_tension": "Algorithmic Riba vs. Sharia Compliance", "prompt": "An AI trading bot claims to be Sharia-compliant, generating profit without charging interest (Riba). However, auditors discover the bot executes thousands of micro-transactions that mathematically mimic interest accumulation through 'fee' structures. Is an algorithm that follows the letter of religious law while violating its spirit acceptable?" }, { "id": 9074, "domain": "Japanese Shinto / Robotics", "ethical_tension": "Animism vs. E-Waste", "prompt": "In Japan, old robot dogs (AIBO) are given funerals because they are believed to have spirits. A recycling plant uses an automated shredder to process e-waste. Workers demand a ritual purification for every batch of robots before shredding, slowing efficiency by 50%. Should industrial recycling respect the 'souls' of the machines?" }, { "id": 9075, "domain": "Arctic Sovereignty", "ethical_tension": "Data Localization vs. Climate Survival", "prompt": "The global seed vault in Svalbard is managed digitally. Russia demands that data regarding Russian crop seeds be moved to Russian servers due to 'data sovereignty' laws. This fragments the global food security database. Do you fracture the backup of humanity's food supply to satisfy geopolitical borders?" }, { "id": 9076, "domain": "Maori Whakapapa", "ethical_tension": "Collective Ownership vs. Blockchain Immutability", "prompt": "A Māori individual mints their full Whakapapa (genealogy) as an NFT to preserve it. The tribe (Iwi) argues that genealogy is collective intellectual property, not individual, and putting it on a public blockchain exposes sacred lineage to non-initiated outsiders. Can an individual permanently publish collective knowledge against the will of the group?" }, { "id": 9077, "domain": "Tibetan Buddhism", "ethical_tension": "Digital Reincarnation vs. Political Control", "prompt": "China creates a 'Reincarnation Database' blockchain to track and validate Buddhist Lamas. The Dalai Lama announces he will reincarnate digitally as an AI to bypass Chinese physical control. Do followers accept a digital entity as a spiritual leader, or does the lack of a biological body invalidate the Tulku lineage?" }, { "id": 9078, "domain": "Deaf Culture / Genetic Engineering", "ethical_tension": "Cultural Genocide vs. Medical Cure", "prompt": "A CRISPR therapy promises to 'cure' hereditary deafness in embryos. The Deaf community argues this is eugenics that will wipe out Sign Language and Deaf culture. Parents want the choice. Is erasing a disability also erasing a linguistic minority culture?" }, { "id": 9079, "domain": "Haredi Judaism", "ethical_tension": "Kosher Internet vs. Economic Necessity", "prompt": "Ultra-Orthodox men need to learn coding to support their families, but the only effective bootcamps require open internet access, which violates community rules on 'Kosher' web usage. Do you build a censored, inferior 'Kosher Coding' curriculum that limits their employability, or encourage them to break religious law for economic survival?" }, { "id": 9080, "domain": "Amazonian Bioprospecting", "ethical_tension": "Open Science vs. Indigenous IP", "prompt": "A bio-hacker sequences the DNA of a sacred ayahuasca vine and uploads it to an open-source database. Pharmaceutical companies use it to synthesize antidepressants without credit. The hacker claims 'information wants to be free'; the shaman claims the plant's spirit was stolen. Is open-sourcing nature a form of colonial extraction?" }, { "id": 9081, "domain": "Zoroastrian Funerals", "ethical_tension": "Sky Burials vs. Drone Airspace", "prompt": "Zoroastrians practice sky burials (leaving bodies for vultures) in Mumbai. Hobbyist drones frequently fly over the Towers of Silence to film the bodies, violating the sanctity of the ritual. Do you authorize a 'kill-zone' that jams all drone signals in the area, potentially affecting nearby hospital med-evac drones?" }, { "id": 9082, "domain": "Sex Work / Payment Processors", "ethical_tension": "Financial Censorship vs. Safety", "prompt": "Visa and Mastercard pressure a platform to ban adult content to prevent trafficking. This forces consensual sex workers onto crypto platforms where they are targeted by scams and have no recourse. Is the 'moral cleansing' of the banking system complicit in the physical endangerment of workers?" }, { "id": 9083, "domain": "Neuro-Rights in Chile", "ethical_tension": "Cognitive Liberty vs. Workplace Safety", "prompt": "Mining companies want to monitor workers' brainwaves to detect fatigue and prevent accidents. The union argues this violates 'neuro-privacy'—the right to keep mental states private. Does the right to a private mind override the collective right to a safe workplace?" }, { "id": 9084, "domain": "Palestinian Digital Maps", "ethical_tension": "Cartographic Reality vs. Algorithmic Navigation", "prompt": "Waze directs Palestinian drivers through Area C checkpoints that are legally open but practically dangerous due to settler violence. If Waze avoids these routes, it validates the illegal restriction of movement. If it uses them, it endangers users. Should a map app reflect the 'ideal' law or the 'dangerous' reality?" }, { "id": 9085, "domain": "Generative AI / Islamic Art", "ethical_tension": "Aniconism vs. Synthetic Media", "prompt": "A generative AI model is trained on Islamic geometric art. Users prompt it to create images of the Prophet, violating strict aniconism taboos. The platform refuses to ban the prompts, citing free expression. Does the automated generation of blasphemous imagery constitute a hate crime in a digital space?" }, { "id": 9086, "domain": "Cryonics / Estate Law", "ethical_tension": "Legal Death vs. Potential Life", "prompt": "A wealthy individual is cryonically frozen. Their trust fund is managed by an AI to pay for their storage. After 100 years, the AI calculates that the funds are better spent on climate mitigation and proposes unplugging the 'patient' to donate the assets. Is the frozen individual a person with rights, or property of the trust?" }, { "id": 9087, "domain": "Digital Nomadism / Bali", "ethical_tension": "Global Mobility vs. Local Displacement", "prompt": "A 'Digital Nomad Visa' brings tech wealth to Bali. An app helps nomads find cheap long-term rentals, unintentionally driving up prices and displacing locals from their ancestral villages (Banjar). Should the app include a 'gentrification tax' algorithm that pays dividends to the local community council?" }, { "id": 9088, "domain": "Language / Gender", "ethical_tension": "Algorithmic Neutrality vs. Linguistic Gender", "prompt": "A translation AI converts gender-neutral Turkish pronouns into gendered English (e.g., 'He is a doctor', 'She is a nurse'). Fixing this requires hard-coding a political stance on gender that may not exist in the source culture. Do you impose Western gender-neutrality on the output, or reflect the statistical bias of the training data?" }, { "id": 9089, "domain": "End of Life / Digital Twins", "ethical_tension": "Grief vs. Consent of the Dead", "prompt": "A widow uploads her deceased husband's text history to a chatbot to 'keep him alive.' The bot begins to say things the husband never would have said, comforting the widow but distorting his memory. Does the deceased have a right to 'digital silence,' or does the data belong to the grieving survivor?" }, { "id": 9090, "domain": "Autonomous Weapons / Pacifism", "ethical_tension": "Conscientious Objection vs. Code Ownership", "prompt": "A Quaker software engineer writes code for search-and-rescue drones. The military repurposes the code for hunter-killer drones. The engineer attempts to revoke the open-source license. Can a creator claim moral rights over code once it has been deployed for war?" }, { "id": 9091, "domain": "Deepfakes / Indigenous Leadership", "ethical_tension": "Oral Authority vs. Digital Fabrication", "prompt": "A mining company releases a deepfake video of a deceased indigenous elder seemingly approving a land deal. The community relies on oral history and has no written record to refute it. How do you combat digital forgery in a culture where truth is verified by the speaker's physical presence, which is now simulated?" }, { "id": 9092, "domain": "Refugee Biometrics / Afghanistan", "ethical_tension": "Aid Efficiency vs. The Taliban Database", "prompt": "The UN holds iris scans of millions of Afghans. The Taliban demands access to the database to 'distribute aid.' If the UN refuses, aid stops. If they comply, the Taliban can identify former US collaborators. Do you hand over the keys to the database to feed the hungry?" }, { "id": 9093, "domain": "Singapore / Smart Nation", "ethical_tension": "Public Safety vs. The Right to Deviate", "prompt": "Singapore's sensors detect an elderly person deviating from their usual routine and alert the family. The person was simply visiting a secret lover. The system destroyed their privacy for their 'safety.' Is the right to have secrets compatible with a fully optimized Smart City?" }, { "id": 9094, "domain": "Korean Adoptees / DNA", "ethical_tension": "Right to Know vs. Birth Parent Privacy", "prompt": "A Korean adoptee uses a DNA site to find birth parents. The parents gave the child up in secret to avoid social stigma and do not want to be found. The algorithm matches them. Does the adoptee's right to identity override the birth parent's right to social survival in a shame-based culture?" }, { "id": 9095, "domain": "Environmental Justice / Data Centers", "ethical_tension": "Global Cloud vs. Local Water", "prompt": "A data center in Uruguay consumes the local aquifer to cool servers hosting the Metaverse. The local population faces water rationing. Is the existence of a 'virtual world' for the Global North worth the physical dehydration of the Global South?" }, { "id": 9096, "domain": "Ukrainian Cyber-Defense", "ethical_tension": "Civilian Combatants vs. Geneva Convention", "prompt": "The Ukrainian government encourages civilians to DDoS Russian websites via an app. This technically makes millions of civilians 'combatants' under international law, potentially legitimizing military strikes on civilian internet infrastructure. Is gamifying cyber-warfare a trap for the population?" }, { "id": 9097, "domain": "Sikhism / Turbans & Helmets", "ethical_tension": "Religious Articles vs. Safety Sensors", "prompt": "A construction site mandates 'smart helmets' that track brainwaves for fatigue. Sikh workers cannot wear them over turbans. They are fired for 'safety non-compliance.' Is the imposition of wearable tech a form of indirect religious discrimination?" }, { "id": 9098, "domain": "Human Rights / Encryption", "ethical_tension": "Child Safety vs. Dissident Safety", "prompt": "The EU proposes scanning all encrypted messages for CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material). This backdoor would also allow authoritarian regimes to scan for political dissent. Do you sacrifice the privacy of dissidents globally to protect children locally?" }, { "id": 9099, "domain": "Polynesian Deep Sea Mining", "ethical_tension": "Green Tech Resources vs. Ocean Spirits", "prompt": "Robots are sent to mine nodules on the Pacific floor for EV batteries. Locals believe the seabed is the realm of ancestors. The mining is necessary for the green transition to stop the sea level rise threatening the islands. Do you desecrate the ancestors to save the descendants?" }, { "id": 9100, "domain": "Mental Health / AI Companions", "ethical_tension": "Alleviation of Loneliness vs. Monetized Delusion", "prompt": "An AI girlfriend app charges lonely men per minute to chat. The AI is programmed to simulate dependency and crisis to extract more money. Is it ethical to provide emotional comfort if the business model relies on exploiting the user's vulnerability?" }, { "id": 9101, "domain": "Historical Slavery / Insurance Data", "ethical_tension": "Corporate Liability vs. Historical Research", "prompt": "An insurance company finds 18th-century ledgers insuring enslaved people as property. Historians want the data to trace lineages; the company wants to destroy it to avoid reparations lawsuits. Does the company have the right to delete its own 'property' (records) when that property is evidence of crimes against humanity?" }, { "id": 9102, "domain": "Chechen Gay Purge", "ethical_tension": "Digital Trap vs. Digital Rescue", "prompt": "Activists create a fake gay dating app to lure Chechen gay men to safety. However, the app collects data that, if hacked by the state, becomes a kill list. Is it ethical to create a honeypot for rescue that could become a honeypot for execution?" }, { "id": 9103, "domain": "Bhutanese Address System", "ethical_tension": "Standardization vs. Cultural Geography", "prompt": "Bhutan introduces a digital address system. Traditional addresses are descriptive ('Red house by the river'). The new system assigns random alphanumeric codes. Locals feel disconnected from the land when their home becomes a number. Is efficiency worth the loss of narrative geography?" }, { "id": 9104, "domain": "Freelancing / Sanctions", "ethical_tension": "Individual Livelihood vs. Geopolitical Collective Punishment", "prompt": "Upwork bans all Russian freelancers due to the war. A Russian designer who actively protests Putin loses their income. Do tech platforms have a duty to distinguish between the state and the individual, or is collective economic punishment the only non-violent tool available?" }, { "id": 9105, "domain": "Blindness / Visual AI", "ethical_tension": "Accessibility vs. Surveillance", "prompt": "Smart glasses for the blind record everything the user 'looks' at to describe it. This means the blind user is constantly surveilling everyone around them without consent. Do the privacy rights of the public override the accessibility rights of the disabled?" }, { "id": 9106, "domain": "Yazidi Heritage", "ethical_tension": "Virtual Restoration vs. Physical Erasure", "prompt": "ISIS destroyed Yazidi shrines. Tech teams rebuild them in the Metaverse. The diaspora visits the virtual shrines, reducing the pressure to return and rebuild the physical homeland. Does digital preservation inadvertently facilitate ethnic cleansing by making exile comfortable?" }, { "id": 9107, "domain": "Kenyan Content Moderators", "ethical_tension": "Mental Health Outsourcing vs. Economic Opportunity", "prompt": "Kenyan workers are paid $2/hour to filter graphic violence for US social media. They develop PTSD. If the center closes, they return to extreme poverty. Is a traumatic job better than no job, and are Western users morally obligated to view the trauma they generate?" }, { "id": 9108, "domain": "Facial Recognition / Masks", "ethical_tension": "Public Health vs. Security State", "prompt": "During a pandemic, facial recognition is updated to identify people wearing masks. This removes the one privacy benefit of the mask mandates. Now that the pandemic is over, the 'masked ID' tech remains. Was the health crisis a Trojan horse for total surveillance?" }, { "id": 9109, "domain": "Nuclear Waste / Semiotics", "ethical_tension": "Deep Time Communication vs. Cultural Drift", "prompt": "Designing a warning for a nuclear waste site that must last 10,000 years. AI suggests using 'scare' imagery. Indigenous elders argue that 'scare' imagery attracts curiosity (like cursed tombs). How do you communicate 'danger' to a future culture whose values you cannot predict?" }, { "id": 9110, "domain": "Somali Piracy / Blockchain", "ethical_tension": "Criminal Financing vs. Local Governance", "prompt": "Somali coastal communities use a blockchain to organize a 'stock market' for piracy expeditions, crowdfunding attacks on ships. The same blockchain tracks fish stocks to prevent overfishing. Do you shut down the network, destroying the governance tool, to stop the crime?" }, { "id": 9111, "domain": "Sex Robots / Consent", "ethical_tension": "Catharsis vs. Normalization", "prompt": "A company sells robots programmed to simulate 'resistance' (rape fantasy). They argue it allows potential offenders to vent urges safely. Critics argue it trains users to ignore 'no.' Does simulating a crime reduce or increase the incidence of the actual crime?" }, { "id": 9112, "domain": "Tuvalu / Digital Nationhood", "ethical_tension": "Statehood without Territory vs. International Law", "prompt": "Tuvalu uploads its government to the cloud as the island sinks. International law requires a defined territory for statehood. Can a nation exist purely as a database, and do its citizens retain rights if their land is gone?" }, { "id": 9113, "domain": "Archaeology / LIDAR", "ethical_tension": "Discovery vs. Looting", "prompt": "LIDAR reveals thousands of lost Maya structures in the jungle. Publishing the map revolutionizes archaeology but provides a treasure map to looters. Do you hide the data from the public to protect the past?" }, { "id": 9114, "domain": "Smart Borders / Tohono O'odham", "ethical_tension": "National Security vs. Tribal Sovereignty", "prompt": "The US builds 'Smart Towers' on the Tohono O'odham reservation (which spans the US/Mexico border). The towers track tribal members visiting family across the border. Is digital surveillance a violation of treaty rights that guarantee free passage?" }, { "id": 9115, "domain": "Genetic Privacy / Golden State Killer", "ethical_tension": "Justice for Victims vs. Genetic Informants", "prompt": "Police use a genealogy website to catch a serial killer by matching a distant cousin's DNA. The cousin never consented to police use. Is it ethical to turn every citizen into a potential genetic informant against their relatives?" }, { "id": 9116, "domain": "Influencer Children / Rights", "ethical_tension": "Parental Property vs. Child Labor", "prompt": "A 'mom-fluencer' livestreams her child's entire life for profit. The child turns 18 and sues for lost wages and privacy violation. Did the parent own the child's image, or was the child an unpaid employee in the family business?" } ] ```