AI and Fairness in Decisions
Whether AI should make important decisions about people: jobs, loans, justice; who is responsible when AI makes unfair decisions; introduction to algorithmic fairness
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“If your child learned that a computer program was deciding who gets a job interview, could they explain why that might be unfair and who should be responsible?”
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- Activity. Whether AI should make important decisions about people: jobs, loans, justice; who is responsible when AI makes unfair decisions; introduction to algorithmic fairness
What to notice. Give an example of an important decision that AI might help make (hiring, medical diagnosis, loan approval) • Explain why letting AI make decisions about people can be risky if the system is biased • Suggest who should be responsible if an AI system makes an unfair decision
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If your child learned that a computer program was deciding who gets a job interview, could they explain why that might be unfair and who should be responsible?
Whether AI should make important decisions about people: jobs, loans, justice; who is responsible when AI makes unfair decisions; introduction to algorithmic fairness
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- Give an example of an important decision that AI might help make (hiring, medical diagnosis, loan approval)
- Explain why letting AI make decisions about people can be risky if the system is biased
- Suggest who should be responsible if an AI system makes an unfair decision
“If your child learned that a computer program was deciding who gets a job interview, could they explain why that might be unfair and who should be responsible?”
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- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Computing
- Domain
- Artificial Intelligence
- Age range
- Ages 9–11