Big Idea 5 · Topic 5.1 · Exercise 2
Impact Court
25 minutes - 4 cases - LO IOC-1.A, IOC-1.B
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Scenario 1 · Foundational
A district rolls out an attendance app that texts parents the moment a student misses any class. Parents call it the district's best purchase in years. School counselors report a spike in students afraid to seek morning counseling help - the instant text reaches volatile homes before any adult can add context. The district asks the court: is the alert feature good or bad?
Sign check (which CED principle is in play, and what in the case tells you):
Mechanism + defense (how the impact happened, and what responsible creators could reasonably have done):
Enrichment sub-type (which flavor of unintended impact - and does a second one stack?):
Scenario 2 · Core
Two students build a free flashcard app for their AP classes. A celebrity study-influencer features it, and it jumps from 3,000 to 15 million users in ten days. Servers buckle, the shared-deck feature fills with pirated textbook scans, and copyright notices arrive addressed to two teenagers. Their defense: 'We built it for our school.'
Sign check (which CED principle is in play, and what in the case tells you):
Mechanism + defense (how the impact happened, and what responsible creators could reasonably have done):
Enrichment sub-type (which flavor of unintended impact - and does a second one stack?):
Scenario 3 · Core
A programmer builds an ad-matching service to help neighborhood shops find nearby customers. A payday-loan chain becomes its biggest client, aiming ads at users whose recent searches include 'overdue rent' and 'car repossessed' - and, across the city, poorer zip codes see loan ads where richer ones see credit-union offers.
Sign check (which CED principle is in play, and what in the case tells you):
Mechanism + defense (how the impact happened, and what responsible creators could reasonably have done):
Enrichment sub-type (which flavor of unintended impact - and does a second one stack?):
Scenario 4 · Challenge
A startup trains a resume-screening model on ten years of its clients' hiring records to 'find candidates like your best employees.' Independent audits later show it downgrades applicants from two zip codes and one women's college. Meanwhile the same core engine, licensed to a medical lab, is flagging early-stage tumors that radiologists miss. The CEO asks the court: 'So is our technology beneficial or harmful?'
Sign check (which CED principle is in play, and what in the case tells you):
Mechanism + defense (how the impact happened, and what responsible creators could reasonably have done):
Enrichment sub-type (which flavor of unintended impact - and does a second one stack?):
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