Perform an impact assessment evaluating potential effects: Which activity best matches this need at the design
A structured evaluation of effects on people's rights, opportunities, and safety, done before build, is an impact assessment.
The question
While designing an AI system that will screen job applicants, a governance team wants a structured evaluation of how the system could affect individuals' rights, opportunities, and safety, conducted before build decisions are locked. They must choose the right assessment. Which activity best matches this need at the design stage?
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- Run a model accuracy benchmark against a held-out test set to confirm the classifier meets its predefined target performance metrics.Plausible but wrong: accuracy benchmarking measures technical performance, not the broader effects on people's rights and opportunities.
- Complete a vendor security questionnaire to evaluate the supplier's controls before integrating a third-party component.Almost right because due diligence is real, but a vendor questionnaire assesses a supplier, not the system's societal impact.
- Prepare a cost-benefit analysis comparing projected efficiency savings against the expected build and maintenance spend.Plausible but wrong: a financial cost-benefit analysis addresses economics, not the rights and safety effects an impact assessment covers.
- Perform an impact assessment evaluating potential effects on individuals' rights, opportunities, and safety before building. ✓Correct because III.A.2 requires performing or reviewing an impact assessment on the AI system during design and build.
The trap
Substituting an accuracy, vendor, or financial evaluation for an assessment of impacts on people. How to remember it
A structured evaluation of effects on people's rights, opportunities, and safety, done before build, is an impact assessment.
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