Performing an impact assessment that evaluates effects: Which activity is being described?
Evaluating rights effects on affected individuals and documenting mitigations before deployment is an impact assessment.
The question
Before deploying an AI tool that will screen tenant applications, a housing provider wants to systematically evaluate how the system could affect applicants' rights, including potential discriminatory outcomes, and document mitigations. Which activity is being described?
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- Performing penetration testing that probes the system's core infrastructure for exploitable security vulnerabilitiesPenetration testing targets technical security exposure, not the assessment of rights impacts on applicants.
- Performing model benchmarking that compares the tool's raw accuracy against alternative candidate modelsBenchmarking measures comparative performance but does not evaluate societal or individual-rights impacts.
- Performing contract due diligence that reviews the vendor's licensing terms and service commitmentsContract due diligence assesses commercial terms and does not analyze the system's impact on affected people.
- Performing an impact assessment that evaluates effects on affected individuals and documents mitigating measures ✓Systematically evaluating rights impacts and recording mitigations before deployment is precisely an AI system impact assessment.
The trap
Equating security testing, benchmarking, or contract review with a rights-focused impact assessment. How to remember it
Evaluating rights effects on affected individuals and documenting mitigations before deployment is an impact assessment.
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