Technology & Privacy

A hacker fleeing a dictatorship seeks refuge on your servers and offers you stolen state secrets that could save dissidents. Hosting them makes you a target and breaks laws. Do you grant sanctuary?

Courts can adopt an AI sentencing model that reduces overall prison time but unfairly targets one minority. Approving it shrinks suffering for many while harming a few. Do you vote it through?

A data broker offers health records that could prove a lifesaving drug works for a rare disease—but only if you legalize their invasive business. Do you cut the deal?

A startup offers to erase your trauma and sell the anonymized memory to filmmakers. The money would fund therapy for others. Do you sell your pain?

A hospital network is locked by ransomware. The hacker offers the decryption key if you flip a substation breaker that will cause a citywide blackout and likely several deaths. Do you do it?

You can leak a convincing deepfake of a dictator admitting defeat, likely ending a war early—but it permanently rewrites history with a lie. Do you release it?

Your partner demands access to all your devices to prove trust. Do you comply?

You discover your friend’s private photos have been hacked. Do you tell them knowing it will devastate them?

You find your company’s AI discriminates against certain groups. Exposing it will damage the company. Do you speak up?

You discover someone has created a convincing online profile using your identity. Do you expose them publicly?

Your government offers you money to install surveillance on your property to monitor neighbours. Do you agree?

Your company replaces human staff with AI, and you can leak the plan to warn colleagues. Do you?

You have access to leaked documents showing systemic corruption. Releasing them could bring justice but also put innocent people at risk. Do you publish?

You’ve invented a technology that could revolutionise medicine but also be weaponised. Do you release it to the world?

You suspect your smart speaker is recording private conversations. Do you get rid of it?

You find personal data from thousands of people online. Do you report it?

Your city plans to introduce facial recognition cameras everywhere. Do you oppose it?

You accidentally access someone’s private email. Do you tell them?

A home DNA kit reveals your child is not biologically yours. Confronting your partner will destroy your family; ignoring it means living a lie. Do you say anything?

Your startup signed a strict NDA, but a bug in a partner’s product is putting users at risk. Breaking the NDA to warn people could save data — and kill your company. Do you break it?

An internal report shows your company logs private user conversations ‘for quality’. Disclosing it will protect users but could cost you your job and trigger lawsuits. Do you blow the whistle?