Standard difficulty · 20 questions · 40 marks · Time: 36 minutes
Show your working for Sections B and C. Answers are on the last page — try every question first!
Ethics and AI Bias Awareness · AW-7CT-BIA-2026-V1 · For parents — fold back or tear off before handing the sheet to your child.
| Q | Answer | Working |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | (d) bias | — |
| 2 | (d) 48% | 192 ÷ 400 × 100 |
| 3 | (a) photos taken in the day | fewest: 80 of 400 |
| 4 | (d) voice clips of adults | voice clips of children: 100%, voice clips of adults: 76% |
| 5 | (c) 20 | day photos: 39/50 = 78%; night photos: 29/50 = 58% |
| 6 | (a) it may misread messy writing | — |
| 7 | (a) checking an AI tool’s answer in a textbook | — |
| 8 | (c) testing a model only on the examples it was trained on | — |
| 9 | When an AI system gives unfair or less accurate results for some people or groups, often because of its training data. | — |
| 10 | 18% | 72 ÷ 400 × 100 |
| 11 | voices of older people | fewest: 10 of 50 |
| 12 | recordings from quiet rooms | recordings from quiet rooms: 84%, recordings from noisy rooms: 100% |
| 13 | 16 | recordings from quiet rooms: 17/25 = 68%; recordings from noisy rooms: 13/25 = 52% |
| 14 | (a) it may fail more often at night (b) it may misunderstand children | — |
| 15 | 79% | 79 ÷ 100 × 100 |
| 16 | 20 | 4 + 16: once shared, a post is hard to take back |
| 17 | (a) 10%. (b) It may make more mistakes on night photos. (c) Add many more night photos so both groups are well represented, then test on each group. | — |
| 18 | (a) 98%; (b) 80%; (c) samples of messy handwriting | 49/50 × 100 and 20/25 × 100 |
| 19 | (a) 38%; (b) 30%; (c) pictures of green apples | each count ÷ 50 × 100; fewest: 15 |
| 20 | (a) it may reject good green apples (b) it may fail more often at night (c) it may misread everyday chat and slang | — |