Taxonomy

People affected

Taxonomy

The people this system is used on, or whose lives its decisions affect — including those who never chose to interact with it.

Elements

Raw JSON

Live API response from GET /schemas/ai@2026-08-12-beta/categories (this category) and GET /schemas/ai@2026-08-12-beta/elements?category_id=affected.

category "affected"117 lines
{
  "id": "affected",
  "name": [
    {
      "locale": "en",
      "value": "People affected"
    }
  ],
  "description": [
    {
      "locale": "en",
      "value": "The people this system is used on, or whose lives its decisions affect — including those who never chose to interact with it."
    }
  ],
  "prompt": [
    {
      "locale": "en",
      "value": "Who is this system used on?"
    }
  ],
  "authoring_guidance": [],
  "examples": [],
  "sources": [],
  "required": true,
  "order": 3,
  "datachain_type": "ai",
  "shape": "hexagon",
  "element_variables": [
    {
      "id": "title",
      "label": [
        {
          "locale": "en",
          "value": "Title"
        }
      ],
      "required": true,
      "kind": "localized_text"
    },
    {
      "id": "description",
      "label": [
        {
          "locale": "en",
          "value": "Description"
        }
      ],
      "required": true,
      "kind": "localized_text"
    }
  ],
  "element_context": {
    "id": "relationship",
    "name": [
      {
        "locale": "en",
        "value": "Relationship"
      }
    ],
    "description": [
      {
        "locale": "en",
        "value": "How this system touches this person or group."
      }
    ],
    "values": [
      {
        "id": "subject",
        "name": [
          {
            "locale": "en",
            "value": "Decided about"
          }
        ],
        "description": [
          {
            "locale": "en",
            "value": "The system produces an output about this person that affects them directly — a score, a match, an eligibility call."
          }
        ],
        "color": null
      },
      {
        "id": "bystander",
        "name": [
          {
            "locale": "en",
            "value": "Caught incidentally"
          }
        ],
        "description": [
          {
            "locale": "en",
            "value": "Swept into the system’s data even though it isn’t making a decision about them — a face in the background of a camera aimed elsewhere."
          }
        ],
        "color": null
      },
      {
        "id": "community",
        "name": [
          {
            "locale": "en",
            "value": "Wider community"
          }
        ],
        "description": [
          {
            "locale": "en",
            "value": "A place or group affected collectively, beyond the individuals the system processes — a neighbourhood under watch, a ranked workforce."
          }
        ],
        "color": null
      }
    ]
  }
}
elements in "affected" (1)57 lines
[
  {
    "id": "people",
    "category_id": "affected",
    "title": [
      {
        "locale": "en",
        "value": "People"
      }
    ],
    "description": [
      {
        "locale": "en",
        "value": "The people this system is used on, or whose lives its decisions affect."
      }
    ],
    "authoring_guidance": [],
    "examples": [],
    "sources": [],
    "symbol_id": "people",
    "variables": [
      {
        "id": "title",
        "label": [
          {
            "locale": "en",
            "value": "Title"
          }
        ],
        "required": true,
        "kind": "localized_text"
      },
      {
        "id": "description",
        "label": [
          {
            "locale": "en",
            "value": "Description"
          }
        ],
        "required": true,
        "kind": "localized_text"
      }
    ],
    "shape": "hexagon",
    "icon_variants": [
      "default",
      "dark",
      "subject",
      "subject.dark",
      "bystander",
      "bystander.dark",
      "community",
      "community.dark"
    ]
  }
]