Systematically identifying and evaluating the potential: Which focus best fulfills the impact assessment's pur
An impact assessment is defined by evaluating effects on affected individuals, groups and society, plus mitigations.
The question
During design of an AI system that will screen tenancy applications, a reviewer must perform an impact assessment. The reviewer wants to ensure the assessment captures what most distinguishes it from a purely technical evaluation. Which focus best fulfills the impact assessment's purpose?
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- Measuring the model's predictive accuracy and latency against benchmark datasets to confirm it clearly meets the agreed engineering performance targets.Plausible but wrong: accuracy and latency are technical performance metrics, not the societal-effect focus that defines an impact assessment.
- Cataloguing the compute, storage and networking resources needed so the system can be provisioned and scaled cost-effectively in production.Plausible but wrong: infrastructure capacity planning is an operational concern unrelated to assessing impacts on affected people.
- Documenting the licensing terms of third-party libraries so the build satisfies the organization's open-source software compliance policy.Plausible but wrong: software licensing review is a legitimate build task but does not evaluate the system's effects on individuals or society.
- Systematically identifying and evaluating the potential effects of the system on affected individuals, groups and society, with mitigations. ✓Correct: an impact assessment centers on effects to people and society and the measures to mitigate them, which is its defining purpose.
The trap
Reducing an impact assessment to model accuracy or engineering metrics instead of effects on people. How to remember it
An impact assessment is defined by evaluating effects on affected individuals, groups and society, plus mitigations.
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