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.
BurdenStructural
Scope
H. Governance & power. Structures that determine who sets moral boundaries and who can intervene.
Genealogy
Ethotechnics uses Externalized Harm Channels to extend the h. governance & power vocabulary and connect governance, design, and policy teams.
Ethotechnics Institute Research Team. (2026). Externalized Harm Channels. Ethotechnics glossary. https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/externalized-harm-channels
MLA
Ethotechnics Institute Research Team. "Externalized Harm Channels." Ethotechnics glossary, 2026, https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/externalized-harm-channels.
Chicago
Ethotechnics Institute Research Team. "Externalized Harm Channels." Ethotechnics glossary. Jan 9, 2026. https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/externalized-harm-channels.
BibTeX
@misc{glossary_externalized-harm-channels,
title={Externalized Harm Channels},
author={Ethotechnics Institute Research Team},
year={2026},
howpublished={Ethotechnics glossary},
url={https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/externalized-harm-channels},
version={v1.1.0}
}
RIS
TY - WEB
TI - Externalized Harm Channels
AU - Ethotechnics Institute Research Team
PY - 2026
UR - https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/externalized-harm-channels
ER -