Claim LD08-SL-C15 (v1.0)
Green argues that technology ethics is “a terrain of contestation where the central debate is not whether ethics is desirable, but what ‘ethics’ entails and who gets to define it,” and that current approaches “are poised to enable” technology companies to label themselves ethical without substantively altering their practices.
Provenance and status
- Claim type
- INTERPRETATION (as printed: “INTERPRETATION”)
- Publication status
- ELIGIBLE (INTERPRETATION_LABEL) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH INTERPRETATION LABEL”)
- Verification state
- CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (as printed: “CONTENT VERIFIED”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
- Does not license
- An empirical measure of industry influence
- Source (field 6, as printed)
- Green, “The Contestation of Tech Ethics: A Sociotechnical Approach to Technology Ethics in Practice,” Journal of Social Computing, 2021
- Source type (field 7)
- PEER_REVIEWED_JOURNAL_ARTICLE (as printed: “Peer-reviewed journal article”)
- Institutional position
- Independent academic (University of Michigan)
- Maturity (claim evidence / publication maturity)
- CONTESTED (as printed: “CONTESTED”)
- Recorded date
- 2026-10-16
- Currentness / correction
- This is the current version. No correction or concern relation is recorded on its Sources.
Version
Current version v1.0, resolved through the explicit current pointer CLAIM--LD08-SL-C15.
Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)
- “Green, “The Contestation of Tech Ethics: A Sociotechnical Approach to Technology Ethics in Practice,” Journal of Social Computing, 2021” → SRC-SL-GREEN-JSC-2021--v1.0 — Green, “The Contestation of Tech Ethics: A Sociotechnical Approach to Technology Ethics in Practice,” Journal of Social Computing, 2021; class PEER_REVIEWED_JOURNAL_ARTICLE (explicit public provenance pin)
All 25 canonical Claim fields (raw values and normalized values)
| # | Canonical field | Canonical value (verbatim) | Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CLAIM ID | LD08-SL-C15 | — |
| 2 | PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM | Green argues that technology ethics is “a terrain of contestation where the central debate is not whether ethics is desirable, but what ‘ethics’ entails and who gets to define it,” and that current approaches “are poised to enable” technology companies to label themselves ethical without substantively altering their practices. | — |
| 3 | CLAIM TYPE | INTERPRETATION | base_types: INTERPRETATION |
| 4 | RESEARCH STRAND | A — Who produces knowledge about AI | — |
| 5 | MATURITY | CONTESTED | states: CONTESTED |
| 6 | SOURCE | Green, “The Contestation of Tech Ethics: A Sociotechnical Approach to Technology Ethics in Practice,” Journal of Social Computing, 2021 | source_ids: SRC-SL-GREEN-JSC-2021 |
| 7 | SOURCE TYPE | Peer-reviewed journal article | classes: PEER_REVIEWED_JOURNAL_ARTICLE |
| 8 | INSTITUTIONAL POSITION | Independent academic (University of Michigan) | — |
| 9 | SCOPE | Technology ethics in industry, academia and policy, mainly in the US | — |
| 10 | DESIGN | Conceptual argument drawing on published accounts | — |
| 11 | SAMPLE / DATASET | Not applicable | — |
| 12 | MODEL / TOOL / VERSION | Not applicable | — |
| 13 | COMPARATOR | Not applicable | — |
| 14 | MAIN RESULT | Ethics is contested over its content and over who defines it; the label can be adopted without substantive change | — |
| 15 | INFERENTIAL TARGET | Who holds authority to define ethical AI | — |
| 16 | DOES NOT LICENSE | An empirical measure of industry influence | — |
| 17 | VERIFICATION STATE | CONTENT VERIFIED | state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · verified_by: UNKNOWN |
| 18 | LIMITATIONS | An argument introducing a special issue; it relays some evidence from secondary accounts, which carry no claim here | — |
| 19 | CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES | LD08-SL-C14 | — |
| 20 | GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE | US / English | — |
| 21 | DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER | Not analysed in this claim | — |
| 22 | R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS | LD-08, D3 | — |
| 23 | WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM? | Empirical work on who sets the terms of AI ethics in practice | — |
| 24 | PUBLICATION STATUS | ELIGIBLE WITH INTERPRETATION LABEL | state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: INTERPRETATION_LABEL |
| 25 | RECORDED DATE | 2026-10-16 | — |
Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: LD-08 (LIVING_DEBATE); D3 (DOMAIN)
Cited by Living Debate versions
Research-of-record provenance
Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 203935adbea618887b4b2d449c4db424d9c22ad45b0a284f3f2b279498a341c9.
Repository-authored inputs (not Drive exports)
- SocioLens claim — LD08-SL-C15 v1.0 (v1.0) — written in the SocioLens repository by Project Lead (Claude, AI) on 2026-10-16; no Drive identity exists. Authority: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 16 October 2026 to build the LD-08 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-08 source notes, checked against full texts, official web pages or official abstracts. Block “ENTRY 15 — LD08-SL-C15” SHA-256
815f90beaf0f1ad4697a9c85980dfc0b3057b609c54c820f0ae92b762d87c0cc; fixturefixtures/authored/claims/LD08-SL-C15--v1.0.
Builder decisions (not Drive data)
- VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the repository-authored claim fixture version (SocioLens claim — LD08-SL-C15 v1.0); the first version of a new Claim of the LD-08 debate
- CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: repository-authored claim "SocioLens claim — LD08-SL-C15 v1.0" (Project Lead (Claude, AI), 2026-10-16); basis: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 16 October 2026 to build the LD-08 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-08 source notes, checked against full texts, official web pages or official abstracts
- FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-SL-GREEN-JSC-2021--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 15 — LD08-SL-C15 cites "Green, “The Contestation of Tech Ethics: A Sociotechnical Approach to Technology Ethics in Practice,” Journal of Social Computing, 2021"; the only field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's repository-authored ledger block.
- SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-SL-GREEN-JSC-2021--v1.0 — basis: explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion (Amendment v1.2 §6): the pinned field-6 Source record "Green, “The Contestation of Tech Ethics: A Sociotechnical Approach to Technology Ethics in Practice,” Journal of Social Computing, 2021".