UK Lesson Plan
Understanding AI Bias (UK)
How does AI bias happen?
Age
11–18Time
20 mins.
Objectives
- Define AI bias.
- Understand how AI bias happens.
- Reflect on ways to reduce AI bias.
Vocabulary
AI bias .
testing data .
training data
AI bias – when an AI tool makes a decision that is wrong or problematic because it learned from training data that didn't treat all people, places, and things accurately
testing data – the information used to check whether the AI that was created is reliable and accurate
training data – the information given to an AI to help it learn how to do specific tasks
Before the Lesson
We encourage exploring the following activity ideas to help set a foundational understanding of how AI works: