Ethical Challenges of Artificial Intelligence is a Grade 7 Computer Science worksheet that examines the privacy, fairness, transparency, and accountability issues that arise when AI systems influence decisions about people. Students explore how biased training data can produce unfair outcomes, why personal information must be protected, and why human responsibility remains essential when organizations use artificial intelligence.

Explore the Ethics Behind AI Decisions

Through realistic examples involving schools, student opportunities, and AI-powered recommendations, learners examine what responsible AI use looks like in practice. They define and apply key vocabulary, including ethics, accountability, transparency, responsibility, privacy, bias, and human oversight. Rather than treating AI decisions as automatically correct, students consider how people can question recommendations, identify possible harm, and improve the systems they use.

The reading passage, Ethical Decisions in Everyday AI, connects these concepts to practical situations. Students investigate how unrepresentative training data may disadvantage certain groups, why people should know what information an AI application collects, and how clear explanations help users recognize possible mistakes. They also consider the roles of developers, schools, and other organizations in testing systems, protecting personal information, and maintaining appropriate oversight.

What Students Practise

• Vocabulary and concept application: Connect ethical terms to their meanings and use them to reason about AI decisions.
• Reading comprehension: Extract relevant information from the passage about privacy, bias, transparency, and accountability.
• Ethical reasoning: Evaluate realistic scenarios involving student data, AI recommendations, and unequal outcomes.
• Evidence-based responses: Answer short-response questions and develop a reasoned extended response with practical solutions.
• Visual interpretation: Complete a labeled diagram activity connected to the lesson topic.

The worksheet combines a guided dialogue activity, matching, a fill-in passage, a labeled diagram, reading comprehension, multiple-choice questions, true-or-false statements, short-answer responses, and an extended written response. These activities move from recognizing essential concepts to applying them in situations where fairness, privacy, and human judgment matter.

Included Resource and Teacher Support

• Printable Grade 7 Computer Science worksheet on ethical challenges of artificial intelligence.
• Student activities covering key terminology, a focused reading passage, scenario-based reasoning, and written reflection.
• Separate PDF Teacher Guide containing learning objectives, teaching tips, discussion questions, and common mistakes.

The separate Teacher Guide provides support for introducing the vocabulary, prompting thoughtful discussion, and addressing common misunderstandings as students examine AI-related decisions.

Ways to Use This Resource

Use this AI ethics worksheet during a Computer Science lesson on artificial intelligence, as guided reading and independent practice, or as a discussion-based lesson about responsible technology use. The school recommendation scenario in the extended response gives students a concrete starting point for evaluating ethical risks and proposing safeguards. The activities can also support classroom conversations about when people should review AI-generated recommendations instead of accepting them without question.

Curriculum note: The resource is identified as using a general framework; no specific curriculum standard is stated. It is intended for Grade 7 Computer Science instruction focused on ethical AI use.