Externalized Harm Channels — Operational test: Evidence appears in documentation, interface cues, or governance artifacts that reflect externalized harm channels.
Operational test "Evidence appears in documentation, interface cues, or governance artifacts that reflect externalized harm channels." for Externalized Harm Channels in the Governance & power glossary category.
Operational test
Evidence appears in documentation, interface cues, or governance artifacts that reflect externalized harm channels.
Use this test to validate operational readiness.
Pair this test with the minimum evidence criteria to capture both qualitative and quantitative signals.
- Evidence artifact: Artifact documenting how Externalized Harm Channels is expected, enforced, or governed.
- Behavior signal: Observed behavior showing Externalized Harm Channels in practice during real use or drills.
- Metric signal: Metric tracked to monitor Externalized Harm Channels performance over time.
The pathways through which institutions push risk, cleanup, or delay onto others: contractors, users, bystanders, or future teams. Mapping these channels exposes hidden transfer mechanisms behind nominally efficient systems. Ethotechnic teams use this mapping to redesign accountability and rebalance burden toward the system owner.
H. Governance & power. Structures that determine who sets moral boundaries and who can intervene.
Ethotechnics uses Externalized Harm Channels to extend the h. governance & power vocabulary and connect governance, design, and policy teams.