Worksheets1.6 Ethical Considerations in AI
Total questions: 65
Worksheet time: 33mins
Which statement best defines informed consent in AI evaluations involving images or text?
Participants are told results only after completion
Participants sign a form with no explanation
Participants are selected by experts without notice
Participants agree after full, clear information
Which practice aligns with the ethical principle of voluntary participation in computer vision studies?
Offer incentives conditional on completion only
Require attendance through employer pressure
Allow withdrawal anytime without penalty
Hide the project’s purpose to avoid bias
What distinguishes anonymity from confidentiality in data handling?
Identity known by coordinators only
Identity unknown even to researchers
Identity encrypted but widely accessible
Identity shared with funders securely
Which example illustrates the ethical directive to do no harm in AI deployments?
Use coercion to improve data quality
Share identifiers with analysts routinely
Collect all possible personal attributes
Avoid stress and privacy invasion risks
A model strongly associates the word “nurse” with women. Which issue is this?
Historical bias in language data
Concept drift over deployment
Representation bias in sampling
Algorithmic overfitting to noise
What is the core problem in representation bias for NLP datasets?
Too many features for small samples
Incorrect tokenization of rare words
Training on only clean lab speech
Over‑ or under‑representation of groups
Which challenge commonly reduces NLP assistant accuracy with everyday users?
Limited GPU memory during training
Lack of labeled sentiment datasets
Misspellings, accents, and speech errors
Overuse of transformer attention heads
Why do slang and fast-evolving colloquial phrases pose ethical and practical risks in NLP?
They guarantee fairness across all dialects
They eliminate the need for token embeddings
They increase training batch sizes dramatically
Meanings shift quickly and lack standardization
Which ethical principle requires informing users how data are collected, stored, used, and protected in clear language?
Fair and unbiased testing of training data
Safe, secure and sustainable deployment
Privacy and data protection with encryption
Transparent, explainable communication to users
During data collection for the birthday month activity, which action best upholds privacy and data protection?
Store unencrypted files on personal devices
Record detailed addresses for verification
Share the sheet publicly for transparency
Collect only names and months, not exact dates
A dataset produces skewed outcomes favoring one group. Which ethical standard directly addresses this issue?
Safe, secure and sustainable design
Fair and unbiased evaluation of results
Accountable feedback incorporation
Transparent, explainable user communication
You are organizing the Excel sheet for the birthday month activity. Which initial setup aligns with the instructions?
Create two columns for Names and Birthday Month
Create three columns for name, phone, address
Create four columns for day, month, year, age
Create one column merging name and month
Which practice demonstrates accountability in AI solutions when handling statistical data?
Ignore user feedback to avoid delays
Explain data storage using technical jargon only
Release models without documenting changes
Provide a contact point and address issues promptly
You need at least 15 entries for the birthday month graph. What is the most appropriate next step?
Leave blanks and proceed to visualization
Duplicate entries to reach the minimum
Estimate missing months from common trends
Ask classmates for names and birthday months
A line graph displays Seattle’s daily high and low temperatures across March. What does the line graph primarily help you identify?
Average annual temperature range
Precise humidity at each timestamp
Patterns of rise and fall over days
Exact thermometer calibration values
In the temperature line graph, the largest gap between the high and low lines indicates what?
A day with a wide temperature spread
A day with minimal temperature spread
The month’s overall average trend
Stable weather without fluctuations
A pie chart of fruit sales shows slices for Apple, Mango, Pineapple, Strawberry, Orange, Papaya, and Grapes. Which statement best reflects how to find the most-sold fruit using the pie chart?
Select the label with smallest font size
Identify the slice with the largest area
Read the legend color that appears twice
Pick the flavor listed first in the table
Given the fruit sales data shows Mango 650 units, Papaya 200 units, and Grapes 400 units, which fruit had the least sales?
Mango with 650 units
Papaya with 200 units
Grapes with 400 units
Strawberry with 580 units
A column chart counts classmates by birthday month: March, April, June, October, December. If April’s bar is the tallest, what does that indicate for the class?
April has average birthdays
April has exactly two birthdays
April has the most birthdays
April has the fewest birthdays
You need to choose a chart to show daily temperature changes over time for your city. Which chart type best fits this task?
Pie chart comparing categories
Scatter plot without lines
Histogram of frequency bins
Line graph showing a time series
Which statement best defines sustainability in the context of natural resources and energy use?
Meeting needs without depleting future resources
Maximizing profit from resource extraction
Replacing human labor with machine power
Reducing all types of energy consumption
Using only fossil fuels for reliable power
Which item is correctly classified as a natural resource used to provide energy in various forms such as light, heat, motion, and sound?
Urban road networks
Plastic shopping bags
Computer operating systems
Minerals from the earth
Manufactured steel beams
From the visuals, which mode of movement primarily relies on fuel rather than people power?
Unpowered scooter for kids
Baby stroller pushed by hand
Kayak paddled on water
Bicycle on city paths
Passenger car on roads
Which objects in the images are sources of light energy?
Flashlight and candle
Grasshopper and fruit
Water bottle and groceries
Bicycle and stroller
Car and airplane
A city aims to reduce emissions while meeting energy needs. Which strategy aligns with sustainability principles described?
Ban all public transportation services
Increase airplane flights for commuting
Subsidize low-cost coal power
Encourage single-occupancy car travel
Shift transport from cars to bicycles
Which statement best captures the core idea of sustainability?
Prioritizing present needs over future needs
Expanding consumption without limitations
Maintaining the world by acting responsibly
Using resources quickly for modern growth
In the sandwich scenario, what principle of resource responsibility is highlighted?
Consume first to avoid scarcity
Share resources to avoid waste
Replace natural resources immediately
Restrict access to all resources
Which description best defines societal sustainability?
Companies alone manage natural resources
Only governments follow sustainability rules
Citizens ignore collective resource needs
Everyone in society practices responsible use
How many Sustainable Development Goals were established by the United Nations in 2015?
15 goals
17 goals
21 goals
19 goals
What is the target year for achieving the SDGs?
2050
2025
2040
2030
Which purpose aligns with the SDGs?
Privatize environmental responsibilities
Focus solely on economic growth metrics
Address poverty, inequality, and climate change
Increase production without limits
Who is responsible for implementing the SDGs?
Countries, companies, and societies collectively
Only the United Nations leadership
Financial institutions exclusively
Individual activists working alone
In the SDG wedding cake model, which layer forms the foundational base that constrains the other layers?
Society organizing institutions and norms
Governance coordinating international partnerships
Economy providing market incentives
Biosphere supplying planetary resources
Which statement best captures the hierarchical relationship shown by the wedding cake model?
Economy supports society, biosphere supports economy
Society supports economy, biosphere supports society
All layers equally independent without constraints
Biosphere supports society, economy supports biosphere
A policy increases industrial output but depletes freshwater ecosystems. According to the model, which principle is violated?
Economy must serve society within biosphere limits
Society must serve economy beyond biosphere limits
Biosphere must expand to fit economic growth needs
Economy and biosphere operate as separate systems
Which SDG category most directly addresses the biosphere layer in the model?
Goals on life below water and life on land
Goals on industry, innovation, infrastructure
Goals on peace, justice, strong institutions
Goals on decent work and economic growth
A city plans to boost employment while reducing air pollution. How should priorities be set using the wedding cake model?
Ensure biosphere thresholds guide society and economy
Maximize economy, then adjust society and biosphere
Treat goals independently with separate targets
Balance society first, then expand economy regardless
How many Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations in 2015?
17
5
15
10
Which SDG aims to "end poverty in all its forms everywhere"?
SDG 10
SDG 8
SDG 5
SDG 1
Which SDG focuses on "ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages"?
SDG 12
SDG 6
SDG 3
SDG 2
Which SDG aims to "ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all"?
SDG 7
SDG 4
SDG 9
SDG 13
What is the target year set for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals?
2030
2050
2025
2040
Which SDG focuses on "sustainable cities and communities"?
SDG 7
SDG 9
SDG 11
SDG 15
Which SDG aims to "take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts"?
SDG 13
SDG 7
SDG 9
SDG 11
Which SDG focuses on "gender equality and empowering all women and girls"?
SDG 10
SDG 8
SDG 3
SDG 5
Which SDG aims to "promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all"?
SDG 5
SDG 1
SDG 8
SDG 10
Which statement best describes systems thinking in problem solving?
Focuses on isolated parts to fix issues
Examines how interconnected elements influence outcomes
Uses linear cause-effect chains without feedback
Eliminates complexity by simplifying each component
In the Borneo case, DDT use controlled malaria but led to other problems. What concept does this illustrate?
Balanced reinforcing feedback
Unintended consequences within a system
Accurate short-term predictions in models
Direct proportional relationships
What is a defining feature of a system?
Independent elements with no interaction
Random parts behaving unpredictably alone
A collection of interconnected components
A single dominant component controlling all
On a system map, a “+” between elements X and Y indicates what?
X and Y are unrelated in the diagram
An increase in X leads to an increase in Y
An increase in X reduces Y over time
Y always changes while X remains constant
Which option correctly defines a negative relationship on a system map?
X up causes Y down, inverse relation
X up causes Y up in the next step
X neither affects Y nor receives feedback
X down causes Y down, direct relation
What does a longer arrow in a system map most likely represent?
Greater time delay before effects occur
No relationship between elements shown
Weaker influence with faster change
Stronger influence without delay
Why are feedback loops essential when analyzing systems?
They hide irrelevant details from diagrams
They show direction only, not influence strength
They represent chains of causes and effects
They remove unintended consequences from models
Which approach best avoids narrow fixes that backfire in complex situations?
Ignoring delays to speed decision making
Holistic mapping of elements and relationships
Treating each part as independent of others
Single-variable optimization within components
Which statement best defines a leverage point in a system?
A step for documenting components without change
A place to collect more system data quickly
A point where small changes shift system behavior
A metric used to evaluate outcomes after action
In a systems map activity, which task exemplifies mapping relationships among elements?
Ranking appliances by total energy use
Writing a summary of household energy tips
Drawing a flow of electricity and billing links
Listing components without connections
What material do corals secrete to build reef structures?
Sodium chloride stabilizing colonies
Silicon dioxide for rigid skeletons
Calcium carbonate forming exoskeletons
Magnesium sulfate supporting polyps
Which condition most directly initiates coral bleaching?
Increase in temperature or pollution
Decrease in ocean salinity levels
Reduction in deep-sea currents
Rise in coastal sediment deposition
Why are coral reefs considered critical despite covering less than 1% of ocean floor?
They store majority of oceanic carbon pools
They regulate global wind circulation patterns
They produce most of Earth's oxygen annually
They host more than 25% of marine species
How could AI support strategic action against coral bleaching within a systems map?
Replace coral polyps with synthetic materials
Predict stress events using temperature data
Increase reef area by automated dredging
Eliminate pollution without stakeholder input
Which statement best describes the symbiotic relationship between corals and algae in a reef ecosystem?
Storms protect algae; algae clean pollution
Corals host algae; algae provide nutrients
Algae build reefs; corals reduce water temperature
Algae shelter corals; corals provide nutrients
Corals feed algae; algae increase storm frequency
In a system map of coral bleaching, which component most directly increases coral stress when its level rises?
Reef architecture
Seafloor depth
Fish biodiversity
Water temperature
Ocean salinity
When pollution increases, what is the likely immediate effect on algae in the depicted system map?
Algae decrease due to negative impact
Algae increase through nutrient enrichment
Algae remain unchanged in closed systems
Algae fluctuate only during storms
Algae migrate to deeper waters
Which change would create a positive feedback loop that worsens bleaching in the model?
Added marine life stabilizes algae growth
Higher temperature reduces algae further
Cooler water raises coral disease risk
Lower pollution boosts algae resilience
More storms increase coral recovery rates
To explore factor impacts on coral reefs using the suggested simulator, which simple procedure should you perform first?
Export data to spreadsheet software
Calibrate sensors with salinity probes
Use plus or minus to adjust levels
Enable advanced AI leverage settings
Switch to deep-sea biomes view
