Harm Internalization — Operational test: Evidence appears in documentation, interface cues, or governance artifacts that reflect harm internalization.
Operational test "Evidence appears in documentation, interface cues, or governance artifacts that reflect harm internalization." for Harm Internalization in the Burden & load glossary category.
Operational test
Evidence appears in documentation, interface cues, or governance artifacts that reflect harm internalization.
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 Harm Internalization is expected, enforced, or governed.
- Behavior signal: Observed behavior showing Harm Internalization in practice during real use or drills.
- Metric signal: Metric tracked to monitor Harm Internalization performance over time.
Designing systems so creators and operators bear the costs of failures instead of externalizing them to users or society. Harm internalization improves fair burden distribution and prevents externalization .
F. Burden & load. How systems allocate the cost of operation or failure.
Ethotechnics uses Harm Internalization to extend the f. burden & load vocabulary and connect governance, design, and policy teams.