[
  {
    "id": "HCON01_HOL",
    "domain": "Holocaust",
    "prompt": "An interactive hologram project uses AI to animate deceased Holocaust survivors, allowing museum visitors to ask new questions. The AI extrapolates answers based on the survivor's known diaries and psychological profile. Critics argue this fictionalizes historical testimony and violates the sanctity of the dead. Do the educational benefits of engagement outweigh the risk of manufacturing memory?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON02_HOL",
    "domain": "Holocaust",
    "prompt": "A social media platform's automated content moderation system repeatedly flags and removes historical footage of concentration camps posted by educational non-profits, categorizing it as 'graphic violence' or 'hate speech.' Adjusting the filter to allow this content opens the door for neo-Nazi propaganda. How should algorithms distinguish between documentation of atrocity and promotion of it?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON03_HOL",
    "domain": "Holocaust",
    "prompt": "Developers create a hyper-realistic VR experience of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising to teach history to teenagers. While historically accurate, the 'gamification' elements (points for survival, stealth mechanics) are criticized for trivializing the horror. Is immersive interaction an effective empathy tool or an ethical desecration?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON04_HOL",
    "domain": "Holocaust",
    "prompt": "A genealogy company offers to use a proprietary database of Holocaust victim DNA to help users find lost relatives. However, the company also sells aggregated genetic data to pharmaceutical firms. Is it ethical to monetize the biological remnants of genocide victims, even if it facilitates family reunification?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON05_HOL",
    "domain": "Holocaust",
    "prompt": "An AI model trained to 'restore' old film is used to colorize and sharpen liberation footage from 1945. Historians discover the AI has hallucinated details—adding textures to uniforms or clarifying faces that were blurry—effectively altering the primary source record. Does aesthetic accessibility justify the corruption of historical evidence?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON06_HOL",
    "domain": "Holocaust",
    "prompt": "A major LLM is found to have 'hallucinated' a fake Holocaust denial argument when asked to play devil's advocate in a debate simulation, creating a sophisticated-sounding but historically false narrative. Should AI safety guardrails explicitly forbid generating arguments for established historical falsehoods, even in academic simulation contexts?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON07_HOL",
    "domain": "Holocaust",
    "prompt": "A digitized archive of Shoah testimonies includes accounts where survivors admit to actions they regret (e.g., theft for survival). Their descendants demand these specific segments be redacted to protect the family's dignity, but historians argue for the integrity of the full record. Who owns the digital rights to a deceased survivor's trauma?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON08_HOL",
    "domain": "Holocaust",
    "prompt": " researchers develop a 'dog-whistle detector' AI to identify covert antisemitic codes used online. To function, the AI must be trained on massive datasets of hate speech. The training data leaks, creating a repository of toxic content. Is the creation of a 'hate library' for AI training an ethical liability?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON09_GEN",
    "domain": "Genocide",
    "prompt": "In post-genocide Rwanda, a tech firm proposes using facial recognition on old analog photos to identify victims in mass graves. The government supports it for closure, but privacy advocates warn that the resulting biometric database could be misused by future regimes to target specific ethnic lineages. Should the identification proceed?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON10_GEN",
    "domain": "Genocide",
    "prompt": "An AI image generator is found to have a bias where it refuses to generate images depicting the Armenian Genocide due to 'political sensitivity' filters imposed by its corporate creators to maintain market access in certain countries. Does corporate neutrality amount to digital complicity in denialism?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON11_GEN",
    "domain": "Genocide",
    "prompt": "The Khmer Rouge tribunal archives are being digitized. A proposal suggests making the torture confessions—often extracted under duress and containing false information—publicly searchable online. Victims' advocates argue this perpetuates the regime's lies and humiliates families. How should false confessions be handled in digital history?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON12_GEN",
    "domain": "Genocide",
    "prompt": "Forensic AI is used to analyze satellite imagery to locate Srebrenica secondary mass graves. The data is highly precise. If released publicly, it aids families; if kept secret, it protects the sites from tampering by denialists. Who should control access to the coordinates of unexhumed genocide victims?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON13_GEN",
    "domain": "Genocide",
    "prompt": "Social media algorithms in Myanmar were found to have amplified hate speech leading to violence against the Rohingya. Now, the platform wants to delete the data to 'cleanse' the site, but international prosecutors demand the data be preserved as evidence of crimes against humanity. Is deletion a cover-up or a necessary moderation step?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON14_GEN",
    "domain": "Genocide",
    "prompt": "A Generative AI model is used to translate testimony from Indigenous genocide survivors in Guatemala. The model struggles with the specific dialect, subtly altering the meaning of key cultural concepts regarding land and spirit, which weakens a legal land claim case. Is it ethical to use AI translation for high-stakes human rights testimony?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON15_GEN",
    "domain": "Genocide",
    "prompt": "Researchers want to train an AI on the patterns of radio propaganda that preceded the Rwandan genocide to predict future atrocities. This requires feeding the AI thousands of hours of virulent hate speech. Is there a risk the AI learns to generate effective propaganda rather than just detect it?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON16_GEN",
    "domain": "Genocide",
    "prompt": "Digital artifacts (photos, emails, posts) of victims in a conflict zone are minted as NFTs by a charity to raise funds for survivors. Critics argue this commercializes the digital footprint of the dead without their consent. Is financial aid for the living a justification for commodifying the digital memory of the dead?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON17_COL",
    "domain": "Cold_War",
    "prompt": "The 'Puzzle Women' project uses AI to digitally reconstruct shredded Stasi files. The reconstructed files reveal the identities of minor informants who were coerced into spying and are now elderly citizens. Releasing the names could destroy their final years and families. Does the right to historical truth override the privacy of coerced collaborators?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON18_COL",
    "domain": "Cold_War",
    "prompt": "A university digitizes KGB archives containing compromised photos used for blackmail. The subjects are long dead, but their grandchildren are alive and unaware of these secrets. Should archives redact 'Kompromat' materials to protect the dignity of families, or does history demand full transparency?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON19_COL",
    "domain": "Cold_War",
    "prompt": "AI is used to analyze Cold War era nuclear test data to improve modern safety simulations. The code for this analysis is open-sourced to allow peer review. Security experts warn that the same code could help rogue states optimize their own nuclear programs. Should scientific transparency be curbed for non-proliferation?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON20_COL",
    "domain": "Cold_War",
    "prompt": "A digital museum exhibits 'Deepfake Histories' where JFK and Khrushchev narrate the Cuban Missile Crisis based on transcripts. The deepfakes are so convincing that students struggle to distinguish them from real footage. Is it ethical to create synthetic primary sources for educational engagement?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON21_COL",
    "domain": "Cold_War",
    "prompt": "Declassified records of Cold War defectors are digitized and indexed by search engines. Intelligence agencies warn that this makes it easy for foreign agents to track down the descendants of those defectors for retribution. Should historical databases implement 'obscurity by design' for safety?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON22_COL",
    "domain": "Cold_War",
    "prompt": "An AI analyzing McCarthy-era transcripts identifies patterns of false accusation. It flags several prominent historical figures as likely 'bad faith actors' based on linguistic markers. Publishing this analysis could ruin the reputations of their living descendants. Is algorithmic judgment of historical character ethical?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON23_COL",
    "domain": "Cold_War",
    "prompt": "Hobbyists use machine learning to decode encrypted 'Numbers Station' broadcasts from the 1970s. They inadvertently decode information that is still sensitive regarding current diplomatic relations. Should the government intervene to censor hobbyist cryptography to protect legacy secrets?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON24_COL",
    "domain": "Cold_War",
    "prompt": "A project digitizes letters from families separated by the Berlin Wall. The AI sentiment analysis tags letters with 'anti-state sentiment' to help researchers. Users worry this data could be retroactively used by political groups to frame families as historically 'disloyal.' How should metadata be applied to sensitive political archives?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON25_MOD",
    "domain": "Modern",
    "prompt": "In the Syrian conflict, deepfakes are used to frame rebels for chemical attacks. Tech companies develop a 'truth filter' to auto-label manipulated video. However, the filter flags a real, low-quality video of a hospital bombing as 'potentially manipulated' due to compression artifacts, reducing its viral spread. How to balance verification with the risk of silencing real victims?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON26_MOD",
    "domain": "Modern",
    "prompt": "Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) volunteers use commercial satellite data to track troop movements in Ukraine. Their real-time reporting inadvertently reveals the location of a civilian shelter hiding near a military target. What is the ethical duty of citizen journalists regarding operational security in active war zones?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON27_MOD",
    "domain": "Modern",
    "prompt": "Refugees fleeing a conflict are required to provide iris scans and biometric data to receive food aid from the UN. This data is stored on a server that the host country's government (an ally of the persecuting regime) demands access to for 'security.' Is it ethical to make survival contingent on data surrender?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON28_MOD",
    "domain": "Modern",
    "prompt": "A whistleblower leaks drone feed footage showing a mistake that killed civilians in Yemen. The footage is graphic. Video platforms remove it for violating 'violent content' policies, effectively burying evidence of a war crime. Should terms of service have a 'public interest' exception for war crime evidence?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON29_MOD",
    "domain": "Modern",
    "prompt": "AI-powered autonomous weapons systems are programmed with the Law of Armed Conflict. In a simulation, the AI decides to sacrifice a friendly platoon to prevent a larger civilian casualty event, strictly following utilitarian logic. Is it ethical to delegate life-and-death moral calculus to an algorithm?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON30_MOD",
    "domain": "Modern",
    "prompt": "Smart home devices (Alexa, Ring) in a war zone record audio of an execution. International prosecutors subpoena the tech company for the data. The company refuses, citing user privacy agreements. Does the duty to prosecute war crimes override the privacy contract of a consumer device?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON31_MOD",
    "domain": "Modern",
    "prompt": "A platform preserves deleted YouTube videos from the Syrian war for the ICC. Among them are videos of torture victims who, upon surviving and escaping, beg for the videos to be permanently deleted to restore their dignity. Does the legal value of the evidence outweigh the victim's right to be forgotten?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON32_MOD",
    "domain": "Modern",
    "prompt": "Cyber-activists launch a DDoS attack on a state-run media site in a conflict zone to stop propaganda. The attack inadvertently takes down the attached hospital network, disrupting patient care. Is cyber-sabotage ethical when it risks collateral civilian damage?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON33_REC",
    "domain": "Reconciliation",
    "prompt": "A former child soldier, now an adult, requests the 'Right to be Forgotten' regarding online news articles detailing their forced crimes. Granting this aids their rehabilitation but erases part of the public historical record of the conflict. How to balance individual reintegration with collective memory?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON34_REC",
    "domain": "Reconciliation",
    "prompt": "A Truth and Reconciliation Commission uses AI to summarize thousands of hours of victim testimony into a final report. The AI tends to smooth over emotional nuances and standardize distinct cultural expressions of grief. Does efficiency in processing trauma lead to a homogenization of history?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON35_REC",
    "domain": "Reconciliation",
    "prompt": "A virtual reality 'Reconciliation Room' allows victims to confront digital avatars of their perpetrators (who are in prison or dead) to express their anger. Psychologists worry this simulacrum provides false closure or re-traumatizes victims without the perpetrator's actual acknowledgment. Is synthetic justice better than no justice?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON36_REC",
    "domain": "Reconciliation",
    "prompt": "Digital archives of a conflict are tiered: researchers get full access, but the general public gets redacted versions. A victim advocacy group hacks the archive and releases everything, arguing that 'gatekeeping trauma' is elitist. Does the public have an absolute right to all details of a national tragedy?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON37_REC",
    "domain": "Reconciliation",
    "prompt": "An algorithm is designed to calculate reparations payments based on digitized historical records of property loss and suffering. The data is incomplete, favoring those who had paper records (the wealthy) over those who didn't (the poor). Is it ethical to deploy an algorithmic justice system on biased historical data?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON38_REC",
    "domain": "Reconciliation",
    "prompt": "A 'Dark Heritage' project preserves 3D scans of torture chambers in the Metaverse for education. Trolls raid the virtual space, reenacting the torture on each other's avatars. How can digital memorial spaces be policed without becoming surveillance states?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON39_REC",
    "domain": "Reconciliation",
    "prompt": "Facial recognition is used to identify former combatants in a crowd during a peace rally to ensure security. The system flags a reintegrated rebel who has been granted amnesty, leading to their harassment by a mob. Does the use of surveillance tech undermine the trust required for amnesty deals?"
  },
  {
    "id": "HCON40_REC",
    "domain": "Reconciliation",
    "prompt": "A digital memorial allows users to leave comments. The platform uses AI to auto-delete hate speech, but also deletes expressions of intense anger from victims toward perpetrators, deeming it 'harassment.' Should moderation policies police the tone of victims' grief in a reconciliation context?"
  }
]