An analysis of potential adverse effects on affected: To make it a genuine impact assessment, which element is
An impact assessment must analyze adverse effects on individuals and the safeguards to mitigate them, which the draft lacks.
The question
A governance reviewer receives a vendor's impact assessment for an AI hiring tool that lists intended uses and expected benefits but stops there. To make it a genuine impact assessment, which element is most essential to add?
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- A marketing summary of the competitive advantages the tool offers relative to rival products available on the market today.Plausible but wrong: competitive positioning is a commercial framing and contributes nothing to assessing impacts on individuals.
- A detailed pricing schedule setting out licensing tiers, usage fees and the total cost of ownership over the contract term.Plausible but wrong: pricing belongs in procurement analysis, not in an assessment of the system's effects and safeguards.
- An analysis of potential adverse effects on affected individuals and the mitigating safeguards proposed to reduce them. ✓Correct: identifying adverse effects on people and the mitigations is the essential core of an impact assessment, which the draft omits.
- A hardware specification listing the compute, memory and storage the tool requires to run at the expected transaction volume.Plausible but wrong: infrastructure sizing is an operational concern that does not address impacts on affected individuals.
The trap
Treating a benefits-and-uses summary as a complete impact assessment without harm analysis. How to remember it
An impact assessment must analyze adverse effects on individuals and the safeguards to mitigate them, which the draft lacks.
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