The Dutch Childcare Benefits Algorithm Scandal Quiz

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1. Which factor did the tax administration's risk classification model use that was found to be discriminatory?
   • The parent's income bracket
   • Non-Dutch nationality
   • The number of children in daycare
   • The childcare agency's size
2. What did the Dutch Data Protection Authority conclude in 2020?
   • The model was lawful but poorly documented
   • Only the childcare agencies had broken the law
   • The algorithm had never been used
   • The processing of nationality and dual nationality data was unlawful and discriminatory
3. What happened to parents labeled as acting with intent or gross negligence?
   • They were refused payment arrangements for their debts
   • They received extra allowance
   • Their files were automatically closed
   • They were given priority appeals
4. What was the title of the December 2020 parliamentary inquiry report?
   • Xenophobic Machines
   • Machine Bias
   • Unprecedented Injustice
   • Fraud Signaling Facility
5. What political consequence followed the scandal?
   • The tax administration was abolished
   • Prime Minister Mark Rutte's cabinet resigned in January 2021
   • The Netherlands left the EU AI Act negotiations
   • Childcare allowances were eliminated
6. How can a feedback loop make a fraud risk model confirm its own bias?
   • Models automatically delete old data
   • Human reviewers always overrule the model
   • Random sampling removes all bias
   • Flagged groups get more scrutiny, more discrepancies are found, and those findings become training labels
7. According to the guide, what actually caused the harm in the scandal?
   • The algorithm alone
   • The risk model combined with harsh recovery rules, a presumption of fraud, secrecy and weak appeals
   • Only the use of nationality, which would have been fixed by removing it
   • Fraud by the childcare agencies themselves
8. How does the EU AI Act classify AI used to assess eligibility for public benefits?
   • As minimal risk with no obligations
   • As fully prohibited in all cases
   • As high risk
   • As outside the Act's scope