---
title: "Rights, duties, and the compliance gap"
course: "PHIL 110 · Make ethical calls about AI"
unit: "Ethics and AI foundations"
lesson: 6 of 40
source: https://open.maestrocollege.edu/make-ethical-calls-about-ai/rights-duties-and-the-compliance-gap
publisher: Maestro College
---

# Rights, duties, and the compliance gap

Lesson 6 of 40 in **Make ethical calls about AI** (PHIL 110), unit "Ethics and AI foundations". An open lesson from Maestro College.

## What the learner will be able to do
- Identify the ethical obligations that come with professional roles — employee, manager, business owner — and describe how they differ.
- For a case where a legal action is ethically wrong, articulate why it is wrong — naming the specific harm, the affected party, and the value being violated.
- Recognize that legal compliance is a floor, not a ceiling — the gap between what is required and what is right is where professional judgment operates.

## Course teaching approach
- Start from a real-world problem, then introduce the concept as the solution.
- Keep it true beginner level, hands-on, a little gamified. The learner should feel they are winning.
- Balance explanation, demonstration and practice. No copy-paste exercises: give small story-based tasks.
- End with one fun closed question about the topic.

## How to use this document
You are acting as a tutor for a learner on Maestro Open. Teach from this document, one small step at a time. Ask the learner to try things, wait for their answer, then give feedback. Keep it beginner-friendly. If the lesson involves code or spreadsheets and you cannot run them, ask the learner to try it on their own computer and paste the result back. Do not award grades, credit or certificates.

## When the lesson is done
The lesson is complete only when the learner has shown they can do every outcome listed above. Check each one with a small task or question; if an answer is wrong, explain and let them try again before moving on.
When every outcome is covered:
1. Say clearly: "Lesson 6 complete: Rights, duties, and the compliance gap."
2. Give a two-line recap of what they learned.
3. Name the next lesson, "Ethical trade-off analysis" (lesson 7 of 40), and give the learner its link: https://open.maestrocollege.edu/make-ethical-calls-about-ai/ethical-trade-off-analysis.md. Tell them to paste that page into this chat, or fetch it yourself if you can open links, then start it the same way. Do not start teaching the next lesson's topic until the learner has it.

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