Worlds
Engineering
The Engineering Ethics World represents a domain where engineers navigate complex ethical dilemmas requiring the application of abstract principles to concrete situations. In this world, professionals must balance their paramount duty to protect public safety against other obligations such as client confidentiality, employer loyalty, and professional integrity. Decision-making involves analyzing specific facts, identifying relevant ethical codes, resolving conflicts between competing principles through operationalization, and drawing analogies to precedent cases. The world encompasses scenarios involving safety assessments, environmental impacts, product integrity, confidential information, and professional conduct, all within organizational contexts that include established hierarchies, procedures, and economic pressures that influence ethical judgments.
Created: 2025-04-03
What are Worlds?
Worlds represent the environment and context in which ethical decisions are made. They contain characters, resources, conditions, and other entities that form the framework for scenarios.
Each world is based on an ontology that defines the types of entities and their relationships. Worlds provide the domain-specific elements, rules, and constraints that shape the ethical decision-making process in scenarios.
When you create a world, you establish the foundation for multiple scenarios that can explore different ethical challenges within that domain. The world defines what types of characters, resources, and conditions are available, while scenarios represent specific situations within that world.