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AI Hiring-System Tribunal

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Grades 9-1290 minSource: Creative Dad Company

Students play prosecutor, defense, and judge in a mock tribunal over a simulated AI hiring tool, digging into its training data and outcomes to argue whether it's fair. It's a sharp way to explore bias and accountability in the algorithms increasingly deciding real futures.

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Prep: 10 minActivity: 30 min1 session~$2/groupOne table for the AI Hiring-System Tribunal evidence and prototypeBeginner-friendly

Setup

Print or handwrite the four AI Hiring-System Tribunal challenge steps and place common paper supplies on one table. Prepare one small sample, dataset, scenario, or recycled-material model drawn directly from the project description; no device, paid tool, room decoration, or purchased kit is required.

Activity

  1. Read the AI Hiring-System Tribunal challenge aloud, then review a printed sample of simulated hiring decisions and predict which factors the algorithm might be weighing unfairly.
  2. Use paper, index cards, recycled objects, or facilitator-provided sample data to build a case file—as prosecution or defense—organizing evidence from the data into a clear argument.
  3. Run one tabletop trial and face a surprise piece of counter-evidence from the other side and adjust the argument to account for it honestly.
  4. Finish by hold the tribunal, present both cases to a student judge, and deliver a verdict with recommended fixes to the hiring system; record the evidence that supports the decision.

Done when: The group completes a defensible AI Hiring-System Tribunal solution, records at least one test result or comparison, changes one claim or design in response, and supports its final decision with that evidence.

Materials

printed sample datasets, poster board, markers, index cards, name tags

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Steps

  1. Review a printed sample of simulated hiring decisions and predict which factors the algorithm might be weighing unfairly.
  2. Build a case file—as prosecution or defense—organizing evidence from the data into a clear argument.
  3. Face a surprise piece of counter-evidence from the other side and adjust the argument to account for it honestly.
  4. Hold the tribunal, present both cases to a student judge, and deliver a verdict with recommended fixes to the hiring system.