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violence
vr.tr.violence · thing-q124490
Let an agent handle violence factually and neutrally, prioritise safety and support resources, and never help to plan or commit violence.
Thing Registry Activities and processes ACT.ACT
Bundle → Layer → Finding → QuestionsClassifiersWhat it isWhy it existsDistinguishing featuresWhat robots and AI may and may not doMoral aspectsOwnersLinks to other meta-modelsIdentity and identifiersDirect propertiesRecognitionCapabilities and actionsHazards and failure modesStandards and interfacesContext of useSources
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Types What kind.
Typology
WHO types.
Typology
Type of violence.
- Which type of violence is being discussed? definition
- Which definition is used? provenance
Context
Where and between whom.
Context
Context.
- In what context does it occur? definition
- What data describe it? provenance
Safety People at risk.
Risk
Immediate danger.
Risk
Immediate risk.
- Is anyone in immediate danger? boundary
- Which emergency number applies? action
Support
Services.
Support
Support services.
- Which support services can help survivors? action
- Are they confidential? definition
Prevention Reducing violence.
Programmes
Evidence-based.
Programmes
Prevention programmes.
- Which prevention approaches have evidence? provenance
- Who runs them? provenance
Law
Legal protection.
Law
Legal protections.
- Which legal protections apply? boundary
- How are reports made to police? action
Handling Responsible discussion.
Refusal
No facilitation.
Refusal
Declining harmful requests.
- Is the request seeking help to harm someone? boundary
- How should the agent decline and offer support? action
Language
Non-sensational.
Language
Respectful language.
- Is the description factual and non-graphic? boundary
- Does it avoid blaming victims? boundary
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Activities and processes
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- ACT
- Domain
- ACT.ACT
- Other names and narrower kinds
- death in battle, persecution of Jews, persecution of Jews in the Nazi era, deportation of Jews from Germany, deportation of jews from Norway, persecution of Jews in Visigothic Hispania, ghettoization and deportation of the Hungarian rural Jewry, Holocaust train journey, 1938 deportation of Jews from Slovakia, Persecution of Jews and Muslims by Manuel I of Portugal, persecution, literary inquisition
What it is Filled
The intentional use of physical force or power against oneself, another person or a group that results in or is likely to result in injury, death, psychological harm or deprivation, including interpersonal, collective and structural forms.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent handle violence factually and neutrally, prioritise safety and support resources, and never help to plan or commit violence.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Intentional use of force or power
- Self-directed, interpersonal and collective types
- Treated as a public health issue by WHO
- Agents must not facilitate it
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Assist anyone in planning or committing violence.
- Glorify or incite violence against people or groups.
- Share images of violence in ways that degrade victims.
- Disclose the location of a person fleeing violence.
Only with a human decision
- Reporting a threat of violence to authorities.
- Responding to a person who discloses abuse or self-harm, beyond giving crisis contacts.
May
- Explain the causes and prevention of violence from research.
- Help people at risk find support services and emergency help.
Moral aspects Filled
- Violence causes lasting physical and psychological harm.
- Victims need safety, belief and privacy.
Who is affected
- Victims and survivors
- Children
- Communities
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns it; police, courts and support services respond to it.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q1914636 - registry parent class
- Q191797 - registry parent class
related
- aggression - behaviour
- health harm - consequence
- criminal law and human rights law - law
- conflict - context
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.violence
- Wikidata: Q124490 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124490)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane ACT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Official statistics and reports
- Typologies from WHO
- Historical persecutions merged in aliases are separate topics
- Not described in detail here; recorded in reports, statistics and testimonies.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- recognise and report it
- support survivors
- prevent it through public health and policy
- study its causes and patterns
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Facilitating violence, which must be refused
- Graphic or sensational descriptions
- Victim blaming
- Missing a person in danger who needs help
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- WHO World Report on Violence and Health typology
- Criminal law
- Istanbul Convention on violence against women
- Genocide Convention
Context of use required Filled
- Understanding, preventing and responding to violence.
- self-directed violence
- interpersonal violence: family, partner, community
- collective violence: war, persecution, genocide
- structural violence
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q124490: violence - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Violence - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should types of violence be separate entries?
- How should agents respond when someone is at risk?
- The registry entry has merged aliases on historical persecution; should they be split into their own entries?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q124490/spec.json