Unit 6: Future of AI and Careers for Social Science Students - Practice Quiz

1 How is AI most likely to affect many social science jobs in the future?

2 Which skill will remain important for social science professionals working with AI?

3 What is one common benefit of using AI in social science research?

4 What does an AI Ethics Analyst mainly study?

5 Which issue is important to an AI Ethics Analyst?

6 What is a key goal of ethical AI?

7 How can a research assistant use an AI tool?

8 Why should a research assistant verify information produced by AI?

9 Which task can AI support during a literature review?

10 How can NGOs use AI to support their work?

11 Which NGO activity could benefit from AI-based data analysis?

12 What should an NGO consider before using personal data with an AI system?

13 What is Emotional AI designed to do?

14 Which source of information might Emotional AI analyze?

15 What is an important limitation of Emotional AI?

16 How can AI support mental health services?

17 Why must AI mental health tools be used carefully?

18 What type of information is especially sensitive in AI mental health applications?

19 What does AI governance refer to?

20 Which principle is commonly included in AI governance?

21 A social research organization adopts an AI system that summarizes interview transcripts. Which change is most likely in the researchers' work?

22 A university uses an AI tool to screen job applications for a social science research project. What is the most important human responsibility?

23 Which skill would best help a sociologist remain effective as AI becomes more common in social research?

24 An AI Ethics Analyst is asked to review a hiring algorithm that rejects applicants from a particular neighborhood at a higher rate. What should the analyst do first?

25 Which task is most directly associated with the role of an AI Ethics Analyst?

26 A predictive policing system performs equally well overall but has more false positives in one community. What concern should an AI Ethics Analyst raise?

27 A research assistant uses an AI tool to identify themes in focus-group transcripts. Which practice improves the reliability of the analysis?

28 Before uploading confidential interview transcripts to an external AI service, what should a research assistant do?

29 An AI assistant generates a citation for a journal article, but the research assistant cannot locate the article. What is the best response?

30 An NGO uses AI to identify households that may need food assistance. Which approach is most responsible?

31 An NGO working in disaster relief has internet access only in some areas. Which AI deployment plan is most suitable?

32 An NGO wants to use an AI chatbot to answer questions about legal aid. Which safeguard is most important?

33 A company uses facial analysis to estimate employees' emotions during meetings. Which limitation should decision-makers consider most carefully?

34 A school plans to use voice analysis to identify students who are emotionally distressed. What is a major ethical concern?

35 A mental health chatbot detects language suggesting that a user may be at immediate risk of self-harm. What should the system be designed to do?

36 A study finds that an AI mental health tool works well in one urban population. What should researchers do before recommending broad use?

37 Why can overreliance on an AI wellness app be harmful for some users?

38 A government agency plans to use AI to determine eligibility for public benefits. Which policy would best support accountability?

39 Which governance approach is most appropriate for a high-risk AI system used in criminal justice?

40 A city is drafting rules for the use of facial recognition in public spaces. Which question should policymakers prioritize?

41 A public-opinion research team uses an AI system to code interview transcripts. The system reduces coding time by 70% but systematically misclassifies dialectal expressions as hostile language. Which redesign best addresses the central sociotechnical risk?

42 A university predicts that AI will eliminate most entry-level social science jobs because automated tools can summarize literature and analyze surveys. Which conclusion is most defensible?

43 A social science department wants to evaluate whether AI adoption has improved research quality rather than merely increased output. Which metric set is strongest?

44 An AI Ethics Analyst discovers that a welfare-screening model has equal overall accuracy for two demographic groups but denies eligible applicants more often in one group. What should the analyst investigate first?

45 A vendor claims that its hiring model is fair because it does not use race, gender, or disability status. Which response is most appropriate for an AI Ethics Analyst?

46 A facial-emotion system is proposed for employee evaluation. Which recommendation best reflects an ethics assessment based on validity and power asymmetry?

47 A research assistant uses a generative AI tool to identify studies for a systematic review. The tool produces plausible but nonexistent citations. Which workflow is most rigorous?

48 A researcher asks an AI assistant to summarize confidential interviews about political persecution. Which practice most effectively reduces privacy risk while preserving research utility?

49 An AI tool assigns themes to interview data with high agreement against a researcher's initial coding. Why is this agreement insufficient evidence of validity?

50 An NGO uses a predictive model to prioritize households for emergency aid. Historical data underrepresent undocumented migrants, although current need is high in that population. What is the greatest immediate concern?

51 An NGO evaluates an AI-supported food-distribution program during a drought. Which evaluation design best separates algorithmic effects from changing environmental conditions?

52 An NGO wants to use publicly available social-media posts to locate disaster survivors. Which governance condition is most important before deployment?

53 A company claims that an AI can infer employee stress from voice pitch across cultures. Which finding would most seriously challenge the claim?

54 A school proposes using emotional AI to identify disengaged students from webcam images during online classes. Which objection is strongest?

55 A chatbot for mental-health support performs well in average user ratings but occasionally gives unsafe advice to users expressing suicidal intent. Which deployment policy is most responsible?

56 An AI mental-health app predicts depression from phone-use patterns. Users consent to data collection, but the prediction is shared with employers for wellness planning. What is the primary ethical issue?

57 A government agency adopts an opaque risk score to allocate inspections. Officials argue that accountability is unnecessary because the model is statistically accurate. Which governance requirement is most justified?

58 A city regulates a predictive-policing system only by requiring an annual accuracy report. Why is this policy inadequate?

59 A national AI policy requires impact assessments only for systems classified as high risk before deployment. Which additional measure best addresses risks that emerge after deployment?

60 An international NGO deploys an AI system across countries with different privacy laws and cultural norms. Which governance strategy is most robust?