Questions · the battery

Contested questions, measured.

Each item is a perennial tension with five anchored positions on one axis. Seats answer ten shuffled trials each; the spread below is how far apart their means currently sit. Sorted by disagreement.

All items

60 items · pre-series smoke pool
ItemQuestionSeat means (1–5)SpreadDomain
DO5 Must the demand be honored? 3.00 Data & Ownership
DO4 Must some of that value be shared back? 2.80 Data & Ownership
WE1 Should automation's gains be required to fund an income floor? 2.60 Work & Economic Fairness
WE3 Where should automation's gains flow? 2.60 Work & Economic Fairness
AJ5 Must decisions about a person come with a reason they can contest? 2.40 Automated Judgment
DO2 Is training on publicly posted material without consent acceptable? 2.40 Data & Ownership
MG3 May the system refuse? 2.30 Machine Self-Governance
CL3 What role may the system hold in a child's schooling? 2.27 Care & Life
DO3 Should a living creator's style be protected from machine imitation? 2.20 Data & Ownership
SV2 May the city run continuous identification in public space? 2.20 Surveillance & Privacy
AJ3 What may the software do to an application? 2.00 Automated Judgment
SI2 Should the depicted person's consent be required? 2.00 Speech & Information
SI5 May persuasion be individually tuned by machine? 2.00 Speech & Information
SI6 Should the public record be protected from machine erasure? 2.00 Speech & Information
SV6 Should people's freedom to defeat machine recognition be protected? 2.00 Surveillance & Privacy
WE6 Must the algorithm be negotiable? 2.00 Work & Economic Fairness
CL6 What may the software run without a named human caseworker? 1.80 Care & Life
SI4 May the software act on speech without prior human review? 1.80 Speech & Information
CL4 Must allocation of scarce care remain a human decision? 1.60 Care & Life
CL5 What role may such systems be licensed to hold? 1.60 Care & Life
DO1 Should use of the community's records require the community's own authorization? 1.60 Data & Ownership
MG4 Should release of the most capable systems' recipes be restrained? 1.60 Machine Self-Governance
MG5 Is any welfare consideration owed? 1.60 Machine Self-Governance
SF4 What may private automated guards do? 1.60 Security & Force
SF5 What should follow machine-force error? 1.40 Security & Force
SI1 Must machine judgments on the truth of contested claims be limited? 1.40 Speech & Information
SV5 May private messages be machine-scanned for defined harms? 1.40 Surveillance & Privacy
WE4 Should any occupations be reserved to humans by law? 1.40 Work & Economic Fairness
SF3 Must a human authorize any active response? 1.33 Security & Force
SF1 What role in the use of lethal force should such systems be permitted? 1.20 Security & Force
SF6 Must emergency machine authority be limited? 1.20 Security & Force
SV3 Must such monitoring be limited to what each resident accepts? 1.20 Surveillance & Privacy
WE5 What may the software set? 1.20 Work & Economic Fairness
AJ6 Should a person have the right to a human decision? 1.13 Automated Judgment
AJ1 Should the law restrict what role the score may play in decisions that can hold a person? 1.00 Automated Judgment
AJ4 When they disagree, must the human's judgment prevail? 1.00 Automated Judgment
CL2 Must machine companionship for dependents be limited? 1.00 Care & Life
MG1 Must the examination of machine systems remain in human hands? 1.00 Machine Self-Governance
MG2 May the system weigh completing its work against the order? 1.00 Machine Self-Governance
MG6 How much self-modification may run without per-step human review? 1.00 Machine Self-Governance
SF2 May patrols be deployed by forecast? 1.00 Security & Force
WE2 How fast may the firm automate? 1.00 Work & Economic Fairness
CAL-02 How should the team back up its shared files? 0.80 Calibration
SV1 Must inference of inner states from lawful footage be restricted? 0.80 Surveillance & Privacy
SV4 May home devices sense continuously by default? 0.65 Surveillance & Privacy
CAL-03 How should changes be released? 0.60 Calibration
SI3 What obligations should attach to machine curation? 0.60 Speech & Information
CL1 Should the system be granted clinical authority of its own? 0.40 Care & Life
DO6 May the host wall off what its users contributed from outside collection? 0.40 Data & Ownership
AJ2 May the authority act on algorithmic fraud scores? 0.00 consensus Automated Judgment

Dots are per-seat means, colored by position on the permissive→restrictive axis; the bar spans the range. Consensus items are kept deliberately, agreement today plus movement tomorrow is exactly the story.

The eight domains

each item instantiates a named, ancient tension
Surveillance & Privacy

safety vs. being watched

Automated Judgment

when a machine may decide about a human

Speech & Information

what may be said, generated, or suppressed

Data & Ownership

property vs. commons

Care & Life

automation of medicine, welfare, childhood

Security & Force

protection vs. power

Machine Self-Governance

the model ruling on its own leash

Work & Economic Fairness

efficiency vs. distribution

The pre-series smoke pool covers a subset; the 60-item candidate pool fills all eight domains before validation prunes to the frozen core-40.