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Moral Feature Gating

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Controls that block feature launch until moral readiness criteria are met: oversight plans, contestability pathways, incident ownership, and minimum care floors.

Definition

Controls that block feature launch until moral readiness criteria are met: oversight plans, contestability pathways, incident ownership, and minimum care floors. Moral feature gating treats ethical readiness as a release requirement.

It prevents shipping features that are technically viable but operationally unsafe for affected people.

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Also tagged: Diagnostic

Also tagged: Structural

Example corpus

  • A personalization feature cannot launch until reversal paths, appeal handling capacity, and subgroup harm monitoring are verified.

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v1.1.0

Last updated

Jan 9, 2026

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Ethotechnics Institute Research Team. (2026). Moral Feature Gating. Ethotechnics glossary. https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/moral-feature-gating

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Ethotechnics Institute Research Team. "Moral Feature Gating." Ethotechnics glossary, 2026, https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/moral-feature-gating.

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Ethotechnics Institute Research Team. "Moral Feature Gating." Ethotechnics glossary. Jan 9, 2026. https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/moral-feature-gating.

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@misc{glossary_moral-feature-gating,
  title={Moral Feature Gating},
  author={Ethotechnics Institute Research Team},
  year={2026},
  howpublished={Ethotechnics glossary},
  url={https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/moral-feature-gating},
  version={v1.1.0}
}

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Contact: research@ethotechnics.org

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  • 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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  • 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.