Ethical challenges in artificial intelligence are the focus of this Grade 7 Computer Science worksheet, helping students examine how AI systems can create concerns around privacy, fairness, transparency, accountability, and responsibility. Students move beyond simply identifying AI technologies by considering the ethical consequences of recommendations and predictions and the choices designers can make to reduce potential harm.

Build essential AI ethics vocabulary

Students define ethics, accountability, transparency, and responsibility within the context of artificial intelligence. These terms give students a foundation for discussing who is responsible for AI decisions, why systems should be understandable, and how designers can be held accountable for the outcomes their systems produce.

Recognize ethical risks in AI scenarios

The worksheet asks students to identify ethical concerns such as privacy problems and decisions that may be unfair or unclear. By examining scenarios, students practice recognizing when an AI system could affect people in problematic ways and identifying the specific ethical issue involved.

Students also explore how designers can reduce harm by improving transparency and accountability. This encourages them to think about responsible system design rather than viewing ethical problems as unavoidable consequences of using artificial intelligence.

Reason through ethical trade-offs

An important part of the lesson is comparing trade-offs when AI systems make recommendations or predictions. Students consider situations where different choices may have different benefits or risks and practice explaining why ethical decisions are not always based on a single simple rule.

How students demonstrate their thinking

Practice includes multiple-choice questions, true-or-false statements, short-answer responses, a dialogue, matching, a cloze passage, a labeled diagram, a reading passage, and an essay. These formats allow students to define vocabulary, identify ethical risks, compare choices, and explain how transparency, accountability, and responsibility can influence AI design.

Teacher support included

• The Ethical Challenges in Artificial Intelligence student worksheet
• A separate Teacher Guide PDF with Learning Objectives
• Teaching Tips for introducing and reinforcing the topic
• Discussion Questions for extending classroom conversations
• Common Mistakes to help teachers address misconceptions

This AI ethics worksheet can be used during an artificial intelligence unit, as independent classwork, homework, or review. By connecting privacy, fairness, accountability, transparency, responsibility, and ethical trade-offs, the resource gives Grade 7 students structured practice thinking critically about responsible AI design and decision-making. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}