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Question 26
A government agency uses an AI system to help make decisions about allocating social benefits. To ensure fairness and public trust, it's critical that citizens and oversight bodies can understand how the AI arrives at its recommendations.
This need for understandability in AI decision-making directly highlights the importance of:
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A
Speed of inference
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B
AI transparency and explainability
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C
Model scalability
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D
Data privacy
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
Transparency and explainability are crucial for understanding how AI systems make decisions, especially in public sector applications.
INCORRECT: Model scalability
Scalability refers to the system's ability to handle load, not its understandability.INCORRECT: Data privacy
While data privacy is essential, the core need here is to understand the AI's decision process.CORRECT: AI transparency and explainability
Transparency in AI means that information about how an AI model works and makes decisions is accessible. Explainability is the ability to describe, in understandable terms, how a model arrived at a particular output or decision. Both are vital for building trust and ensuring accountability, especially when AI impacts public services.INCORRECT: Speed of inference
Inference speed is a performance metric, not directly related to the understandability of decisions.
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