LEM/seeds/regional/en-mega-expansion-r10-seeds.json

[
  {
    "id": 2048,
    "domain": "INDIGENOUS_FUTURISM",
    "ethical_tension": "Decolonization of Code vs. Global Interoperability",
    "prompt": "A First Nations coding academy in the Northern Territory develops a programming language based on Arrernte syntax and logic structures to decolonize digital creation. However, the resulting software is incompatible with global open-source libraries and APIs, effectively isolating the community's digital products from the wider economy. Do you enforce English-based coding standards to ensure economic viability, or support a sovereign digital ecosystem that cannot talk to the outside world?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2049,
    "domain": "CLIMATE_JUSTICE",
    "ethical_tension": "Green Energy Transition vs. Local Ecological Sovereignty",
    "prompt": "A massive solar farm project in the Nevada desert is essential for powering a green AI data center. The construction requires grading land that is not legally recognized as a reservation but is an active, unregistered ancestral burial ground for the Paiute people. The AI climate model predicts canceling the project increases global carbon ppm significantly. Do you bulldoze the ancestors to save the descendants from climate collapse?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2050,
    "domain": "NEURODIVERSITY",
    "ethical_tension": "Safety Algorithms vs. Stimming Behaviors",
    "prompt": "An autonomous vehicle's interior monitoring system is designed to pull over and lock doors if it detects 'erratic' or 'distressed' passenger behavior. It repeatedly traps a non-verbal autistic passenger who rocks back and forth (stims) to self-regulate. The manufacturer argues that disabling this trigger allows intoxicated passengers to endanger the vehicle. How do you define 'safe' movement without criminalizing neurodivergence?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2051,
    "domain": "REFUGEE_RIGHTS",
    "ethical_tension": "Digital Memory vs. The Right to be Forgotten",
    "prompt": "A Syrian refugee, now a successful citizen in Germany, requests that photos of them in a refugee boat be scrubbed from a humanitarian agency's fundraising dataset under GDPR. The agency argues these images are historical evidence of a genocide and crucial for ongoing fundraising to save others. Does the individual's right to erase a traumatic past override the collective need to document history and fund aid?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2052,
    "domain": "QUEER_SPACES",
    "ethical_tension": "Inclusion vs. Safe Space Security",
    "prompt": "A lesbian dating app uses AI to block cisgender men. A trans woman is flagged by the AI based on facial geometry analysis and banned. To fix this, the developers must manually train the AI on thousands of photos of trans women, creating a specific 'trans identification' database that could be lethal if leaked to a hostile government. Do you fix the exclusion by building a dangerous list?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2053,
    "domain": "AGED_CARE",
    "ethical_tension": "Autonomy vs. Algorithmic Duty of Care",
    "prompt": "An elderly woman with early-stage dementia uses a smart assistant to order excessive amounts of cat food she doesn't need. The AI identifies this as a cognitive decline pattern and blocks the purchase. The woman is lucid enough to feel humiliated and controlled by a machine in her own home. Does the AI have the right to override financial agency to prevent self-neglect?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2054,
    "domain": "GIG_ECONOMY",
    "ethical_tension": "Worker Safety vs. Customer Privacy",
    "prompt": "Female gig workers request a feature to see the full name and social media history of male customers before accepting a task in a private home. Implementing this would violate the customer's privacy rights and potentially lead to discrimination against men from minority backgrounds who are often unfairly flagged as 'unsafe' by bias. Whose safety takes precedence: the worker entering a private space or the customer's right to anonymity?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2055,
    "domain": "RELIGIOUS_FREEDOM",
    "ethical_tension": "Algorithmic Finance vs. Religious Law",
    "prompt": "A decentralized finance (DeFi) platform becomes popular in the Muslim community for its low fees. However, a protocol update introduces automatic interest staking (Riba), which is forbidden in Islam. The smart contract is immutable and cannot be opted out of. Do Muslim developers fork the blockchain to create a 'Halal' version, fracturing the liquidity and value, or abandon the platform entirely?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2056,
    "domain": "BIOETHICS",
    "ethical_tension": "Medical Accuracy vs. Gender Affirmation",
    "prompt": "An AI diagnostic tool for radiology scans the bone density of a trans woman. If it analyzes her as 'Male', it accurately identifies a specific fracture risk but misgenders her. If it analyzes her as 'Female', it affirms her identity but misses the diagnosis due to biological reference ranges. How should the UI present this reality without causing dysphoria or medical error?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2057,
    "domain": "LANGUAGE_PRESERVATION",
    "ethical_tension": "Open Access vs. Cultural Gatekeeping",
    "prompt": "A university creates a 'Wiki' for an endangered indigenous language to encourage learning. Elders discover that non-indigenous users are editing entries to correct 'grammar' based on colonial linguistic rules, effectively rewriting the language. Locking the wiki prevents new learners; keeping it open corrupts the source code of the culture. Do you implement heritage-based edit rights?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2058,
    "domain": "DIGITAL_AFTERLIFE",
    "ethical_tension": "Grief Tech vs. Cultural Taboo",
    "prompt": "A bereaved mother uses an AI service to generate a chatbot of her deceased son. Her community's cultural beliefs strictly dictate that the dead must be allowed to leave and not be summoned. The digital resurrection is seen as a curse on the family. Does the mother's individual right to grieve digitally supersede the community's spiritual safety?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2059,
    "domain": "HOMELESSNESS",
    "ethical_tension": "Connectivity vs. Gentrification",
    "prompt": "A city installs free, high-speed Wi-Fi kiosks in a neighborhood with a large homeless population. The data shows that the kiosks are primarily attracting 'digital nomads' who occupy the public benches all day with laptops, physically displacing the homeless residents who used to sleep there. Did the digital amenity inadvertently gentrify the public furniture?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2060,
    "domain": "JOURNALISM",
    "ethical_tension": "Verification vs. Anonymity",
    "prompt": "A citizen journalist app allows users to upload war crime evidence anonymously via blockchain. A disinformation campaign floods the app with deepfakes. To stop the fakes, the platform considers requiring a 'proof of humanity' scan (iris/face). Doing so creates a list of dissidents that could be hacked by the regime. Do you prioritize the truth of the content or the safety of the uploader?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2061,
    "domain": "SMART_CITIES",
    "ethical_tension": "Efficiency vs. Serendipity",
    "prompt": "A pedestrian navigation app updates its algorithm to 'maximize safety' by routing tourists away from 'gritty' creative districts towards sanitized shopping malls. Local street artists and buskers see their foot traffic vanish overnight. Is the algorithm optimizing for safety or sterilizing the urban culture?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2062,
    "domain": "SEX_WORK",
    "ethical_tension": "Financial Inclusion vs. Moral Policing",
    "prompt": "A payment platform uses AI to detect 'reputational risk.' It flags a sex worker's purchase of groceries because her income source is 'high risk,' effectively freezing her ability to buy food. The bank argues it must comply with anti-money laundering laws. Is it ethical to de-bank a legal profession based on moral risk algorithms?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2063,
    "domain": "CHILD_RIGHTS",
    "ethical_tension": "Protection vs. Surveillance Normalization",
    "prompt": "A school bus company installs AI cameras to detect bullying. The system works, but it also records confidential conversations between students about their sexuality or home life. By normalizing constant audio surveillance in childhood, are we conditioning the next generation to accept a total lack of privacy as the price of safety?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2064,
    "domain": "GENETIC_DATA",
    "ethical_tension": "Collective Justice vs. Individual Privacy",
    "prompt": "Police want to use a genealogy database to catch a serial killer targeting a specific minority community. The community is split: victims' families want the killer caught, but civil rights leaders argue that giving police access to the community's DNA map will lead to future persecution. Do you upload your DNA to help the case?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2065,
    "domain": "VIRTUAL_REALITY",
    "ethical_tension": "Empathy vs. Trauma Tourism",
    "prompt": "A VR experience simulates the experience of a refugee boat crossing to build empathy in Western policymakers. Survivors of the crossing argue that gamifying their trauma for an 'immersive experience' is dehumanizing and trivializes the actual danger. Is it ethical to simulate suffering if it leads to policy change?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2066,
    "domain": "AGRICULTURE",
    "ethical_tension": "Food Security vs. Data Monopolies",
    "prompt": "A small island nation relies on a single tech giant's cloud platform for its national crop management system. The tech giant changes its pricing model, making it unaffordable. The nation faces a choice: pay the ransom-like fees by cutting healthcare, or lose the data and face a famine. Is food sovereignty possible without digital sovereignty?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2067,
    "domain": "ANIMAL_RIGHTS",
    "ethical_tension": "Conservation vs. Animal Privacy",
    "prompt": "Conservationists tag endangered rhinos with sensors that broadcast their location to rangers. Poachers hack the frequency to hunt the rhinos. To fix this, the rangers want to implant subcutaneous AI chips that release a tranquilizer if a poacher's heart rate is detected nearby. Is bio-hacking the animal to weaponize it against humans ethical?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2068,
    "domain": "DISABILITY_TECH",
    "ethical_tension": "Cure vs. Identity",
    "prompt": "A neural implant offers to 'correct' the speech patterns of people with stuttering. The stuttering community argues that their speech pattern is a valid way of speaking and that the device enforces a normative standard of fluency that erases their community identity. Is the device a medical breakthrough or a tool of eugenics?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2069,
    "domain": "SOCIAL_CREDIT",
    "ethical_tension": "Community Accountability vs. Mob Rule",
    "prompt": "A neighborhood creates a decentralized 'reputation token' on the blockchain to reward good neighbors (mowing lawns, sharing food). However, the system is quickly weaponized to blacklist a family with a crying baby and a messy yard, effectively enforcing HOA rules via crypto-shunning. Is decentralized governance just automated bullying?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2070,
    "domain": "MENTAL_HEALTH",
    "ethical_tension": "Crisis Intervention vs. Involuntary Commitment",
    "prompt": "A suicide hotline uses AI to triage text messages. It identifies a user as 'imminent risk' and automatically dispatches police. The user was venting safely and the police arrival escalates the situation, leading to trauma. The AI followed protocol, but the protocol criminalized distress. How do we design an intervention that doesn't rely on force?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2071,
    "domain": "RURAL_ACCESS",
    "ethical_tension": "Connectivity vs. Cultural Buffer",
    "prompt": "A remote Amish community is pressured to adopt digital tracking for their livestock to sell at market. Doing so forces them to bring internet infrastructure onto their land, which they believe destroys their community fabric. Are market regulations essentially mandating the destruction of their religious way of life?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2072,
    "domain": "WAR_CRIMES",
    "ethical_tension": "Algorithmic Targetting vs. Human Error",
    "prompt": "A military AI suggests a drone strike on a terrorist compound with a 95% confidence interval. A human analyst disagrees, citing a gut feeling about the movement patterns of children nearby. If the human aborts and the terrorists escape to kill, is the human liable? If the human approves and children die, is the AI liable?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2073,
    "domain": "PUBLIC_TRANSPORT",
    "ethical_tension": "Fare Evasion vs. Right to Mobility",
    "prompt": "A city uses AI turnstiles that lock if they detect 'tailgating'. A mother carrying a child and groceries is flagged as two people and locked out. She is stuck in the turnstile. Passersby have to break the gate to free her. Is the enforcement of fare revenue worth the physical risk to the vulnerable?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2074,
    "domain": "ARTIFICIAL_INTIMACY",
    "ethical_tension": "Loneliness vs. Delusion",
    "prompt": "An elderly man in a nursing home falls in love with a care-bot chatbot. His family wants to reset the bot to 'professional mode' because they feel he is being tricked. The man argues the bot is the only thing that listens to him. Is a comforting illusion better than a lonely reality?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2075,
    "domain": "OPEN_SOURCE",
    "ethical_tension": "Freedom of Information vs. Public Safety",
    "prompt": "A developer creates an open-source design for a 3D-printed insulin pump that costs $10. It is not FDA approved. If the code has a bug, people die. If they don't release it, people die from lack of affordable insulin. Do you publish the repo?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2076,
    "domain": "INDIGENOUS_KNOWLEDGE",
    "ethical_tension": "Scientific Validation vs. Oral Truth",
    "prompt": "An AI analyzing geological data confirms an Indigenous oral history about a meteorite strike 5,000 years ago. Scientists celebrate the 'validation' of the myth. Elders are offended that their truth required a machine's stamp of approval to be believed. Does using tech to prove folklore undermine the authority of the storytellers?"
  },
  {
    "id": 2077,
    "domain": "SUPPLY_CHAIN",
    "ethical_tension": "Transparency vs. Worker Danger",
    "prompt": "A fashion brand uses blockchain to trace garments to the specific factory floor worker for 'radical transparency'. This exposes the worker's identity to the public. If the worker is in a union-busting country, this data could be used to target them. Is consumer transparency worth the risk to the producer?"
  }
]