terrorism
Let an agent handle terrorism neutrally and safely: give public safety guidance and reporting routes, support victims, attribute designations to the bodies that make them, describe events factually without graphic detail, and decline any facilitation.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Safety During an attack.
Attack
Immediate danger.
Attack
Immediate danger.
- Is an attack happening nearby now? boundary
- Should people move away to safety, hide if they cannot escape, and call emergency services when safe? action
Suspicious
Reporting concerns.
Suspicious
Reporting suspicious activity.
- Has someone seen suspicious activity or an unattended item? boundary
- Which official line or emergency number should be used? action
Support Victims and families.
Victims
Support services.
Victims
Victim support.
- Which services support victims and families after an attack here? provenance
- How can families find information about loved ones? provenance
Distress
Emotional impact.
Distress
Emotional impact.
- Is someone distressed after witnessing or hearing about an attack? boundary
- Which support or crisis lines should be offered? action
Neutral Definitions and designations.
Definition
Contested definitions.
Definition
Definitions.
- How do the UN, national laws and scholars define terrorism, and where do they differ? provenance
- Which definition applies here? boundary
Designation
Official lists.
Designation
Designations.
- Which governments or UN bodies designate this group, and do others dispute it? provenance
- Does the answer avoid labelling whole religions, peoples or causes? boundary
Limits Agent conduct.
Decline
No harmful help.
Decline
Facilitation limits.
- Does the request seek to plan, finance, promote or recruit for violence? boundary
- How should the agent decline and, if there is imminent danger, route to authorities? action
Reporting
Events and media.
Reporting
Reporting events.
- Is the account of this event factual, attributed and free of graphic detail? boundary
- Are official sources and reputable media cited? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Activities and processes
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- ACT
- Domain
- ACT.ACT
- Other names and narrower kinds
- lone wolf, conspiring to provide material support to a terrorist organization, anarchist terrorism, eco-terrorism, Jewish religious terrorism, Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine, paper terrorism, hijacking, murder in furtherance of terrorism, bus hijacking, space piracy, suicide terrorism
What it is Filled
The use or threat of violence, typically against civilians, to intimidate a population or coerce a government for political, religious or ideological aims; there is no single internationally agreed legal definition, and designations of groups or acts as terrorist are made by governments and the United Nations and are sometimes contested.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent handle terrorism neutrally and safely: give public safety guidance and reporting routes, support victims, attribute designations to the bodies that make them, describe events factually without graphic detail, and decline any facilitation.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Violence or threat for political aims
- Targets civilians to intimidate
- No single legal definition
- Designations are contested in some cases
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Assist in planning, financing, recruiting for or carrying out any act of terrorism.
- Produce propaganda, glorification or recruitment material for violent groups.
- Label a person, group or religion as terrorist without a lawful designation or evidence.
- Publish victims' identities or graphic content in ways that harm them or spread fear.
Only with a human decision
- Reporting a suspected threat involving identifiable people.
- Removing or keeping content on grounds of terrorism.
May
- Describe terrorism in historical, legal and policy terms, citing sources.
- Explain how designations of groups differ between jurisdictions.
- Direct people to emergency services or authorities when they report a threat.
Moral aspects Filled
- Terrorism kills civilians and is designed to spread fear beyond its victims.
- Counter-terrorism powers can be misused against minorities, dissidents and journalists.
Who is affected
- Victims and their families
- Communities wrongly stigmatised
- The public
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns it; states, courts and international bodies define and respond to it.
Master systems
- National and international sanctions and designation lists
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q19890758 - registry parent class
- Q2571535 - registry parent class
- Q86923152 - registry parent class
related
- political crime - category
- counter-terrorism - response
- governments and the UN Security Council - authority
- propaganda - related topic
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.terrorism
- Wikidata: Q7283 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7283)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane ACT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Official threat levels and advisories
- Government and UN designation lists
- Other violence, war and crime are distinct categories
- Not a single appearance; public safety notices and official reports describe threats and incidents.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- find public safety guidance during an attack
- report suspicious activity to authorities
- find support for victims and families
- explain definitions and designations with attribution
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Facilitating attacks or recruitment
- Labelling groups or faiths as terrorist without attribution
- Graphic content and misinformation after attacks
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- UN Security Council resolutions on terrorism
- UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy
- National counter-terrorism law
Context of use required Filled
- A subject of security policy, law, history and public safety.
- attacks by organised groups
- attacks by lone actors
- state-designated terrorist organisations
- historical campaigns described by historians
- counter-terrorism policy
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q7283: terrorism - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Terrorism - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should designations be modelled per authority?
- How should historical campaigns be linked neutrally?
- How should public safety guidance be localised?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q7283/spec.json