C Curriculum Explorer
Computing·Artificial Intelligence·conceptual

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

Suggested ages 9–11

Open direct link

Evidence of understanding

  • 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

Assessment prompt

If AI and Fairness in Decisions 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?

Standards alignment

No external standards are linked to this topic.