What Researchers Argue About: teacher key

Artificial Intelligence, grade 10 edition, written for 10th grade. What is AI? Learn why researchers struggle to define it, what hallucination and bias studies found, how the EU, OECD and NIST approach rules, and how much power AI uses.

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Questions and answers

1. What did McCarthy write about whether a machine is intelligent?
   • There is a single yes-or-no answer
   • There is no single yes-or-no answer (answer)
   • Only chess programs are intelligent
2. What did the Stanford study find about language models and legal questions?
   • Hallucination rates of 69 to 88 percent (answer)
   • No mistakes at all
   • Better results on harder tasks
3. Under the EU AI Act, what happens to AI seen as a clear threat to safety and rights?
   • It is banned (answer)
   • It gets no rules
   • It is made voluntary
4. Why was the 2014 Turing test result not reliable?
   • The trial was very small (answer)
   • The judges were all machines
   • It lasted for years
5. What did most people surveyed in the 2025 report say about trustworthiness?
   • It will soon be solved
   • It is ill-defined as it is currently formulated (answer)
   • It is easy to measure

Words

• backpropagation: training method
• hallucination: confident mistake
• voluntary: by choice
• terawatt: huge power unit
• ecosystems: living communities