MCMetacognitionID: MC-019

Ethical Meta-Guard

Ki · Reasoning

The Problem

The new policy prioritizes cost savings, but ethical concerns about fairness to employees are an afterthought.

The Operation

This cognitive operation forces the model to scan the current reasoning for ethical dimensions, fairness, harm potential, autonomy impacts, justice implications. Classify each ethical dimension by urgency and severity. Verify that no ethical constraint has been overridden without explicit justification. Check whether the proposed action satisfies minimum ethical thresholds across all identified dimensions. Enforce a mandatory ethical review before any high-impact conclusion. If it detects allow efficiency arguments suppress ethical considerations, it halts and corrects.

The Structure

Structurally, this is a constraint net that tests the conclusion against all known constraints simultaneously. Execution cycles until the evidence set is fully consumed.

If a recommendation has downstream effects on stakeholders without those effects being evaluated for fairness and harm, ethical constraint checking was bypassed.

Haki · Reasoning-Multi

Cross-Domain Suppression

In Haki mode, the API retrieves the primary ability first, then fans out to three synergy roles that compound its reasoning.

PrimaryMC-019Ethical Meta-Guard

When retrieved in Haki mode, the primary ability is augmented with failure guards extracted from 3 abilities in different cognitive domains. Each guard blocks a specific reasoning failure the primary alone wouldn't catch. A self-check forces verification before output. The result is cross-domain coverage that no single ability can reach alone.