ai-ethics-tradeoffs

ai-ethics-tradeoffs is a skill for Claude Code from aroyburman-codes/pm-skills. It costs 39 tokens per session (1,473 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for thinking through AI safety, ethics, and capability trade-offs, including privacy, bias, content rules, and misuse risks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discuss responsible AI development, deployment, governance, and ethical dilemmas.
Why use it?
It helps make difficult AI decisions clearer by separating competing concerns and examining their effects.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the pm-skills plugin — 17 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to discuss responsible AI development, deployment, governance, and ethical dilemmas.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aroyburman-codes/pm-skills/ai-ethics-tradeoffs
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add aroyburman-codes/pm-skills --skill ai-ethics-tradeoffs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aroyburman-codes/pm-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,473 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00039 $0.01473
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00737
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00295
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00147

Measured 12d ago against content hash aa1ddafbab82, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-ethics-tradeoffs scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/ai-ethics-tradeoffs/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI Ethics & Trade-offs Skill

Generate structured, nuanced analysis of AI safety, ethics, and capability trade-off questions — increasingly central to product decisions at AI companies.

When to Use

  • User asks about AI safety trade-offs
  • User asks about content policy decisions
  • User asks "How would you handle [ethical dilemma in AI]?"
  • User says /ai-ethics-tradeoffs followed by a question
  • Any question about responsible AI development, deployment, or governance
  • Especially relevant for safety-focused AI companies

Why This Matters

At safety-focused labs: Safety is core to the company's identity. Every PM must reason about safety-capability trade-offs fluently.

At capability-focused labs: Under increasing scrutiny for safety practices. PMs must articulate how to "move fast" responsibly.

At research-first labs: Deep commitment to responsible AI development. PMs bridge research safety work and product decisions.

These questions increasingly distinguish good product thinking from great at any frontier AI company.

Framework: SAFE Method (5 Sections)

Section 1: Scope the Dilemma

Before analyzing, clearly define:

  • The tension: What two (or more) values are in conflict?
  • The stakeholders: Who is affected? (users, society, the company, specific communities, future generations)
  • The timeframe: Short-term vs. long-term implications
  • The reversibility: Can this decision be undone if wrong?

Common tension patterns in AI:

  • Safety vs. Capability (restricting model vs. making it more useful)
  • Access vs. Control (open-source vs. closed, free vs. gated)
  • Privacy vs. Personalization (user data vs. better experience)
  • Speed vs. Caution (shipping fast vs. thorough safety testing)
  • Transparency vs. Security (model details public vs. preventing misuse)

Section 2: Analyze Perspectives

For each stakeholder, articulate their legitimate concerns:

  • Users: What do they want? What risks do they face?
  • Society: What are the broader implications?
  • Developers: How does this affect those building on the platform?
  • Researchers: What does the scientific community need?
  • Regulators: What are the legal/compliance requirements?
  • The company: What are the business and reputational stakes?

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 160 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A aa1ddafbab82

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ai-ethics-tradeoffs is a skill published in the GitHub repository aroyburman-codes/pm-skills (25 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,473 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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