AI ETHICS COUNCIL · DAY 3 OF 10
Privacy and Surveillance: Test the Consequence
Compare a useful function and a harmful use without flattening the tradeoff.
- Topic: consent + consequence
- Time: one class period
- Turn in: two-sided analysis and one targeted safeguard
AI Ethics Council Casebook
Use the same casebook for all ten days. Earlier evidence stays available during the hearing and code-writing days.
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Today’s learning
Use the Council Lens: What decision? Who has power? Who is affected? What is the evidence? What check would make the system more accountable?
Today’s task
- Use the public or teacher-provided scenario. Do not share personal messages, faces, locations, or family experiences.
- List the data the system collects.
- Compare a helpful use and a harmful use.
- Test consent, benefit, and the ability to see, challenge, correct, or opt out of the decision.
- Write one safeguard that matches the failure.
Casebook checkpoint
Complete page 4. Keep the complete casebook for the final council decision.
Success criteria
- ✓ The system’s decision is named
- ✓ Benefit and harm name who experiences each one
- ✓ People with less power are included
- ✓ The safeguard is specific and testable
Use this sentence stem:
The system may help when _____, but it may cause harm when _____. A check that matches this risk is _____.
The system may help when _____, but it may cause harm when _____. A check that matches this risk is _____.
Word bank: privacy · surveillance · consent · opt out · false positive · appeal · safeguard
If you get stuck
- A camera is not the whole case; trace storage, access, matching, and consequences.
- A person can benefit from a system and still lack a realistic choice.
- “Improve the AI” is not a safeguard. Name the human check, notice, limit, or appeal.
Before you submit
- Upload a readable copy of page 4. You may submit a document, PDF, photo, or short video walkthrough using the options your teacher enables.
- Keep your complete casebook; later days require evidence from earlier pages.