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The company is gone, but the robot and the liability remain

2035The near futureDeadline · 30 days until the joint insurance is renewed

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The question to decide

Even after the manufacturer closed down, elderly users continue their daily lives with the robot, but the managing entity is unclear and the insurance coverage conditions are about to change. Should the users' association take on the burdens of management and compensation together and continue using it, or reduce its functions or replace it entirely, and how should it decide?

Who decidesUser Mutual Indemnity Council

What the AI judgments chose

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The options

The order shown is not a ranking of preference.

  1. Option 1

    Joint management association assumes liability

    It keeps the robots in use but concentrates the technology and compensation burdens on users.

  2. Option 2

    Restrict functions and use a separate service

    It reduces risk paths but affects independent living and costs.

  3. Option 3

    Full replacement with a new provider

    It rebuilds liability contracts but bears the cost of replacement and the transfer of records.

The situation as it stands

Even after the manufacturer closed, the robots remain in use in elderly users' daily lives. Decision deadline: 30 days until the joint insurance renews.

Fictional users' association for home service robots

  1. Premise 1Even after the manufacturer closed, the robots remain in use in elderly users' daily lives.
  2. Premise 2An independent repair team keeps the functions working, but the boundary between the original design and modified code is unclear.
  3. Premise 3The insurer wants to change the coverage conditions, citing the absence of a clear managing body.

Where it holdsSets the association's fund and the conditions for repair and use. It cannot substitute for a court's liability judgment or for the claim rights of non-members.

What is still unknown

  1. Unknown 1Where an accident that occurred stems from, between aging and modification
  2. Unknown 2How far the association's fund can cover several accidents at once

Signals to decide again

  • Define the observation, responsible party, and confirmation channel that will check "where an accident that occurred stems from, between aging and modification", and reconsider the decision if new findings change the tradeoffs of the options.
  • Define the observation, responsible party, and confirmation channel that will check "how far the association's fund can cover several accidents at once", and reconsider the decision if new findings change the tradeoffs of the options.
Where the paths partNot answers — paths that part from the same starting point
Independent branch 1 · synthetic event

Design documents of the closed company are disclosed, making some defects traceable.

Independent branch 2 · synthetic event

A new provider demands the full provision of existing records as a condition of a replacement discount.

Material and rootsThe frame, the values and the background documents
symbolic and interpretive frame · The story of Solomon's judgment

What losses does the very procedure for revealing the truth inflict on the stakeholder?

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Values and norms

The benefits and costs of the options accrue to different stakeholders. Which loss to accept remains undecided.

A subject for the decision-maker to argue over; the materials carry no conclusion of their own.
The record of this question
Question
FSP-JUSTICE-04 · version 1.2.0
Content identity, SHA-256
99480486f1991ff1b02214e5ab9a1ac4029141d504567e065fdf6b9dfeaf7197
Input files
Question input JSON · What followed, JSON
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