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Week 08 Β· Fair Data

Friday

Fair for everyone
// Find the gap, fill the gap
⏱ about 15 min

Friday: Fair for Everyone

Rocket is designing a new station game. "The buttons go up high, where I can reach," he says.

Raven stretches. She cannot quite reach the top button.

"What do you notice?" she asks. "Who else might miss out?"

Nova hovers low. "Try reaching from my height too," she says.

Design for everyone

Fair design means thinking about everyone who will use a thing.

Rocket designed for himself. He left out people who are shorter.

Data works the same way. If builders only think about some people, others get left out.

People should talk about how AI affects everyone and design it fairly.

FAIR OR NOT?
  • Read the question.
  • Tap your answer.
A sorter is trained on photos from day side and night side. Fair or one-sided?
A pretend voice helper learned only from voices of one age. Fair or one-sided?
A builder asks many kinds of people to test a tool. Is that a good habit?

Week review

Data that leaves out some kinds of examples is ____.
A missing kind of example is a ____.
Working well for everyone is being ____.
Week reviewTrue or false?
AI can help and it can also cause harm.?
If training data is one-sided, AI can work worse for some people.?
One dark photo is enough to fix the night side problem.?
People can find gaps and fix them.?
WHY THIS EXERCISEModels need many examples of every kind, and people can fill the gaps.
MAKE A FAIR HELPER
  • ?Collect examples from all of them.
  • ?Ask who will use the helper.
  • ?Fix any gap you find.
  • ?Test it with every group.
  • ?Train the model.
WHY THIS EXERCISEFair design starts with everyone and checks everyone at the end.
Rocket put buttons where only he could reach. What kind of design was that? Type one word: fair or unfair.
WHY THIS EXERCISEIt left people out, so it was unfair. Lower buttons would include everyone.
ONE MORE FAIRNESS CHECK
  • Read the question.
  • Tap your answer.
Who should test a helper made for a whole station crew?
On paper, redraw Rocket's game so everyone can reach the buttons.

You thought about everyone this week. That is what fair builders do! Explorer Quest is next.

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