ethical-reasoning

To evaluate the ethical implications of a product decision, you analyze potential harms, rights, and duties across consequentialist, deontological, and virtue lenses. This generates a stakeholder harm map and a recommendation with red lines and safeguards for high-stakes scenarios.

Stakeholder harm mapping identifies who could be harmed by a decision, assessing severity, reversibility, and power or voice asymmetries. You need it for responsible AI to avoid abstract users-only reasoning when benefits and costs fall on different affected groups.

Perform a moral trade-off analysis by testing options through consequentialist outcomes, deontological duties, and virtue-based character norms. This synthesis highlights framework convergence or divergence to produce an ethically justified recommendation with safeguards.

Yes, you can identify power asymmetry and consent issues by mapping stakeholder harms during feature deployment. The analysis explicitly highlights power and voice asymmetries across affected groups to ensure ethical safeguards are applied where needed.

This approach works specifically for high-stakes risk assessment where costs and benefits fall on different groups. It evaluates ethical justification by analyzing rights, duties, and harms across multiple moral frameworks to produce actionable red lines.

A limitation of using consequentialist, deontological, and virtue lenses is that these frameworks may diverge, producing conflicting moral recommendations. The synthesis addresses this by highlighting convergence or divergence to establish clear red lines and safeguards rather than a single absolute answer.