CBSE Class 7 · Artificial Intelligence · 2026-27
Ethics and AI Bias: Worksheet
Skills: Abstraction, Decomposition. Circle the correct answer. Show your working in the space beside each question.
- What is AI bias?
- A company trained a hiring AI on 10 years of past hires, most of whom were men. What will the AI probably do?
- Which step best reduces bias in a face-recognition system?
- A translation tool changes a gender-neutral sentence about a nurse into “she” and about an engineer into “he”. Why?
- An AI system makes an unfair decision. Who is responsible for fixing it?
- What does “transparency” mean for an AI system?
Answer key: Ethics and AI Bias
- (a) When an AI system gives unfair results for some groups of people – So AI bias is about unfair results.
- (a) Prefer male candidates, copying the old pattern – It may unfairly favour men unless the data and model are checked and corrected.
- (a) Test and train it with faces of many ages, genders and skin tones – Testing accuracy separately for each group shows whether it is fair.
- (a) It learned gender stereotypes from patterns in its training text – The AI copied the stereotype: a form of bias.
- (a) The people and organisation who built and use it – They must investigate, correct it and explain what happened.
- (a) People can understand how and why it made a decision – This makes it possible to find and challenge bias.