9. Evaluating the Social Impact of Computing Online Quiz Questions

A company introduces a translation platform that could either strengthen or weaken a minority language. Which evaluation perspective focuses most directly on this concern?

A rural area has fast broadband service, but many residents cannot maintain access because the monthly cost is too high. Which dimension of meaningful connectivity is most directly limited?

True or false: The digital divide concerns only whether a person has any Internet connection, not the quality, affordability, device, skills, or security conditions of that access.

What term does the material use for AI systems whose risks arise from interactions among data, software, institutions, developers, users, and social conditions?

True or false: If an automated hiring system does not use race or gender as an input, its decisions cannot be biased on those grounds.

A city trains an AI system to prioritize housing inspections using past complaint records. Some neighborhoods historically filed fewer complaints because residents had less access to reporting channels. What is the most important risk?

What term describes obtaining services, ideas, data, or content by soliciting voluntary contributions from a group, often through an online community?

A city is considering an AI system to prioritize housing-inspection requests. Which safeguards are appropriate according to the responsible decision-making case method? Select all that apply.

An automated service produces a small average improvement but causes severe, difficult-to-reverse harm for a vulnerable group. What should a responsible benefit-risk evaluation do?

Which practices help make a crowdsourcing project more responsible and useful? Select all that apply.

A city invites anyone online to suggest locations for new public services. What limitation should the city consider when interpreting the submissions?

Explain how an organization should evaluate a proposed computing innovation before and after deployment. Your answer should describe the stakeholders and dimensions it should consider, how it should compare benefits with harms, and how safeguards, alternatives, and ongoing monitoring should influence the decision.

Which question belongs most directly to the legal and civic evaluation of a computing innovation?

Which approach best reflects the material's framework for evaluating a computing innovation?

A city introduces an automated system that changes access to a public service. Which statement correctly applies the material's stakeholder analysis?

Which situation best represents meaningful connectivity rather than merely having Internet access?

Which outcomes can crowdsourcing provide according to the material? Select all that apply.

True or false: A small average improvement can be unacceptable if it creates severe harm for a vulnerable group.

True or false: Removing race and gender from an automated hiring model guarantees that the model is free of bias.

True or false: Encrypting an organization's data is sufficient to protect it from phishing and weak access controls.

A government wants to move services online while preserving telephone, in-person, accessible, multilingual, and assisted options. Enter the two-word concept that names this principle.

A city is considering an AI system to prioritize housing-inspection requests. What should it do first under the responsible case method?

Enter the one-word term for the participation pattern that can make crowdsourcing results unrepresentative because contributors choose whether to take part.

A government reports that nearly every household in a region can technically reach the Internet. Which additional finding would most strongly show that a digital divide still exists?

A company encrypts customer files stored on its servers. Which statement best describes what this measure does and does not accomplish?

An employee receives an urgent email that appears to come from the company’s IT department. It asks the employee to click a link and enter a password on a fake login page. What cybersecurity threat is illustrated? Enter the specific threat term.

A public web form accepts a user’s text input and inserts it directly into a database query. An attacker enters specially crafted characters, causing the application to execute an unintended database command. What cybersecurity threat is illustrated? Enter the specific threat term.