Usage Guidelines

Last updated: December 2025

These Usage Guidelines describe how to use the Sentienta Ethics Navigator (the "Service") in a safe, responsible, and productive way. The Service is designed to support structured reasoning and multi-perspective analysis for complex ethical and leadership decisions. It is not a replacement for professional judgment, legal counsel, clinical supervision, or organizational governance.

1. What the Service Is Intended For

The Ethics Navigator is designed to help you:

• Reflect on ethically complex or ambiguous decisions.
• Explore a situation from multiple perspectives.
• Identify values, tradeoffs, and stakeholders.
• Clarify reasoning, options, and implications.
• Strengthen communication with clients, colleagues, or leaders.

The Service provides informational and exploratory output, not instructions or directives.

2. Do's

• Do use the Service as a structured thinking tool. Use it to clarify issues, surface considerations, and explore perspectives you may not have otherwise considered.
• Do maintain responsibility for your decisions. You remain the decision-maker, and the Service does not determine or recommend specific actions.
• Do provide non-identifying scenario information. Describe situations using roles, contexts, or anonymized details rather than real names or personal identifiers.
• Do verify outputs before relying on them. AI-generated content may contain inaccuracies or omissions. Treat it as a reasoning aid, not an authoritative source.
• Do use professional discretion. Ensure your use of the Service aligns with applicable ethical codes, standards of practice, confidentiality requirements, and legal obligations.

3. Don'ts

• Do not submit confidential or identifying information. Avoid real names, client identities, employee details, protected health information, or similar data. Use anonymized descriptions instead.
• Do not rely on the Service as legal or professional advice. The Service is not a substitute for legal counsel, clinical supervision, human resources review, or organizational ethics processes.
• Do not use the Service to make decisions for others. The tool supports your reasoning but does not determine outcomes or provide authoritative recommendations.
• Do not use the Service for prohibited, harmful, or deceptive purposes. This includes actions that may cause harm, violate privacy, manipulate individuals, or evade professional responsibilities.
• Do not treat outputs as factual claims. The Service may generate plausible but incomplete or incorrect statements. They should be interpreted as conceptual frameworks, not verified facts.

4. Examples of Appropriate Use

• Preparing for a difficult leadership conversation or decision.
• Reflecting on an ethically ambiguous choice with multiple stakeholders.
• Exploring options when organizational values appear in tension.
• Clarifying reasoning before advising a client or team leader.
• Evaluating potential impacts of a proposed action.

5. Examples of Inappropriate Use

• Submitting real client or employee identities or confidential details.
• Using the tool to justify predetermined or unethical outcomes.
• Relying solely on AI output to make or defend high-stakes decisions.
• Bypassing professional, legal, or organizational review processes.
• Using the system to surveil, discriminate, or manipulate others.

6. Understanding AI Limitations

The Service generates content using AI models that rely on patterns in training data. Outputs may:

• Sound confident while being incomplete or inaccurate.
• Omit important contextual factors.
• Reflect biases present in training data.
• Require interpretation and verification.

Treat the results as reflective prompts, not authoritative conclusions.

7. User Responsibility

You agree to:

• Use the Service ethically, responsibly, and within professional standards.
• Apply your own judgment to all decisions informed by the Service.
• Respect confidentiality and privacy obligations to clients, employees, or others.
• Comply with all applicable laws, regulations, and ethical codes.

8. Contact

If you have questions about these Usage Guidelines, please contact us at:
info@sentienta.ai