AI Ethics and Bias: Understanding Fairness in Artificial Intelligence MCQs

Explore key concepts like bias mitigation, ethical challenges and responsible AI development. Perfect for students and AI professionals.

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1. What is the primary goal of AI ethics?

  • To make AI systems faster
  • To ensure the responsible development and use of AI systems
  • To reduce the cost of AI systems
  • To replace human decision-making entirely

2. What does "algorithmic bias" refer to?

  • Systematic errors in AI systems that lead to unfair outcomes
  • Improving the accuracy of AI systems
  • Developing faster training algorithms
  • Increasing the efficiency of data storage

3. Which of the following is an example of ethical concerns in AI?

  • Lack of open-source tools
  • High computational costs
  • Discrimination in hiring algorithms
  • Low hardware compatibility

4. What is "fairness" in the context of AI?

  • Ensuring equitable treatment and outcomes for all individuals
  • Maximizing the efficiency of algorithms
  • Reducing training time for AI models
  • Increasing the size of datasets

5. What is the purpose of "AI explainability"?

  • To create synthetic data
  • To optimize the performance of algorithms
  • To improve hardware compatibility
  • To make AI decisions transparent and understandable

6. Which of the following frameworks is widely used to address AI bias?

  • Fairness through Awareness
  • Data Encryption Framework
  • Neural Network Optimization Framework
  • Blockchain for AI Framework

7. What does "data bias" refer to in AI systems?

  • Low computational power of hardware
  • Errors during model evaluation
  • Issues in hyperparameter tuning
  • Skewed or incomplete data that leads to biased model predictions

8. Which of the following is an ethical issue related to AI surveillance?

  • Privacy invasion
  • Increased algorithmic accuracy
  • Faster processing speeds
  • Higher hardware compatibility

9. What is the focus of "inclusive design" in AI development?

  • Building systems that work equitably across diverse populations
  • Increasing training speed for AI models
  • Reducing model size for deployment
  • Enhancing GPU compatibility

10. What is "human-in-the-loop" in AI systems?

  • Building systems without user feedback
  • Fully automating the decision-making process
  • Training AI systems without human intervention
  • Including human oversight in decision-making processes

11. What is a "black-box model" in AI?

  • An AI model whose internal workings are not easily interpretable
  • A simple model with clear transparency
  • An unsupervised learning algorithm
  • A model optimized for GPU computation

12. Which organization provides guidelines on AI ethics?

  • UNESCO
  • CERN
  • NASA
  • IEEE

13. What is the significance of "accountability" in AI ethics?

  • Holding developers and organizations responsible for AI outcomes
  • Reducing the size of training datasets
  • Optimizing the learning rate of models
  • Enhancing the hardware efficiency of systems

14. What is the role of "bias mitigation techniques" in AI?

  • Reducing or eliminating biases in AI systems
  • Increasing the complexity of AI models
  • Enhancing the processing speed of systems
  • Decreasing the size of datasets

15. What does "data anonymization" help achieve in AI systems?

  • Protecting individual's privacy by removing identifiable information
  • Increasing the dataset size for better accuracy
  • Improving the efficiency of data processing
  • Enhancing hardware utilization during training

16. What is "AI transparency"?

  • Reducing the complexity of AI models
  • Making the processes and decisions of AI systems clear and understandable
  • Increasing the size of training datasets
  • Decreasing computation time

17. What is the ethical concern of "AI weaponization"?

  • Optimizing neural network architectures
  • Increasing model complexity
  • Using AI for harmful or military purposes
  • Reducing dataset bias

18. Which principle is essential for responsible AI?

  • Optimized neural architectures
  • High computational speed
  • Reduced hardware costs
  • Non-discrimination

19. How can "algorithmic transparency" be ensured?

  • By documenting and explaining the design and decision processes of AI systems
  • By using more complex neural networks
  • By increasing the computational efficiency of models
  • By reducing the dataset size

20. Which term describes AI systems that prioritize user safety and well-being?

  • Efficiency
  • Beneficence
  • Scalability
  • Robustness

21. What is "AI governance"?

  • Establishing rules and frameworks for the ethical use of AI
  • Optimizing algorithms for faster execution
  • Reducing hardware requirements for AI training
  • Improving neural network performance

22. What is "bias amplification" in AI?

  • When AI models improve their accuracy over time
  • When AI models reduce dataset sizes
  • When AI models increase existing biases in the data
  • When AI models overfit training datasets

23. What is "ethical AI by design"?

  • Incorporating ethical principles into AI development from the beginning
  • Developing AI models without documentation
  • Increasing the dataset size to reduce biases
  • Optimizing AI models for faster execution

24. Which term refers to testing AI systems for fairness across demographic groups?

  • Backpropagation analysis
  • Model regularization
  • Fairness evaluation
  • Gradient descent optimization

25. What is "adversarial bias testing"?

  • Testing AI models by introducing deliberate biases to evaluate their robustness
  • Reducing dataset size during training
  • Increasing the complexity of AI models
  • Enhancing GPU compatibility

26. What does "proportionality" in AI ethics mean?

  • Increasing model accuracy at all costs
  • Ensuring AI systems do not cause harm greater than the benefits they provide
  • Reducing the computational efficiency of systems
  • Expanding the dataset size to reduce errors

27. Which aspect is critical to preventing ethical issues in AI?

  • Larger training datasets only
  • High computational power
  • Advanced neural network architectures
  • Diverse and representative datasets

28. What is the significance of "AI accessibility"?

  • Ensuring AI technologies are available to diverse populations
  • Increasing the training speed of AI models
  • Reducing dataset size for faster processing
  • Optimizing AI algorithms for higher performance

29. What does the "Right to Explanation" in AI refer to?

  • Optimizing algorithms for faster execution
  • The legal requirement for organizations to explain AI decisions
  • Reducing the computational cost of AI models
  • Increasing the complexity of neural networks

30. How can "fairness constraints" be applied in AI systems?

  • By ensuring equitable treatment for all groups during training and evaluation
  • By using larger datasets for training
  • By optimizing the algorithm for better hardware compatibility
  • By reducing the size of training data