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Ethotechnic Audit

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A structured assessment of a system’s moral capabilities, including stoppability, reversibility, burden distribution, contestability, and accountability.

Definition

A structured assessment of a system’s moral capabilities, including stoppability, reversibility, burden distribution, contestability, and accountability. Ethotechnic audits validate evidence, stress-test pathways, and define remediation steps with named owners.

Structural
Scope
A. Core concepts. These terms define the Ethotechnics discipline itself and set expectations for moral system design.
Genealogy
Builds on safety and compliance audits while centering harm prevention, repair, and accountability.

Adjacent terms

platforms audits sre

Related concepts

Also tagged: Structural

Ethotechnics Moral Behavior (of Systems) Ethical Load Path Conviviality Ethotechnic Maturity Legibility

Example corpus

  • After a harmful rollout, a platform audit verifies stop controls, reversal paths, and repair ownership before relaunch.

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v1.1.0

Last updated

Jan 9, 2026

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APA

Ethotechnics Institute Research Team. (2026). Ethotechnic Audit. Ethotechnics glossary. https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/ethotechnic-audit

MLA

Ethotechnics Institute Research Team. "Ethotechnic Audit." Ethotechnics glossary, 2026, https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/ethotechnic-audit.

Chicago

Ethotechnics Institute Research Team. "Ethotechnic Audit." Ethotechnics glossary. Jan 9, 2026. https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/ethotechnic-audit.

BibTeX

@misc{glossary_ethotechnic-audit,
  title={Ethotechnic Audit},
  author={Ethotechnics Institute Research Team},
  year={2026},
  howpublished={Ethotechnics glossary},
  url={https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/ethotechnic-audit},
  version={v1.1.0}
}

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Contact: research@ethotechnics.org

Publication details

  • Published: Dec 3, 2025
  • Last updated: Jan 9, 2026
  • Version: v1.1.0
  • DOI: Pending Zenodo deposit

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

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Changelog

  • v1.1.0 · 2026-01-09 — Expanded scholarly metadata, operational tests, and provenance notes.
  • v1.0.0 · 2025-12-03 — Initial glossary release with stable permalinks.