Questions –13 The correct answer is false

Questions 27–40
27 The correct answer is iii: 
The text gives examples of AI predictions and says, ‘AI is almost 
always better at forecasting than we are’.
28 The correct answer is vi: 
The text says that ‘if Watson generated a recommendation 
that contradicted the experts’ opinion, doctors would typically conclude that Watson wasn’t 
competent’. The writer also uses the phrase ‘even more suspicion and disbelief’ to refer to 
doctors’ reactions and says that many doctors chose to ‘ignore the seemingly outlandish 
AI recommendations and stick to their own expertise’. The word ‘suspicion’ and the fact 
that doctors chose to rely on their own expertise rather than AI recommendations indicate 
distrust. The phrases ‘even more suspicion’ and ‘many doctors’ indicate that this distrust was 
widespread. 
29 The correct answer is ii: 
The text gives three reasons why we have more faith in human 
judgement than in AI: our lack of familiarity with AI, our lack of understanding of how AI works 
and our perception that AI often goes wrong. First, it explains that ‘Trust in other people is often 
based on our understanding of how others think and having experience of their reliability. This 
helps create a psychological feeling of safety’, and then contrasts this with our relative lack of 
familiarity with AI: ‘AI, on the other hand, is still fairly new and unfamiliar to most people’. Next, 
it says that ‘AI’s decision-making process is usually too difficult’ to understand and explains that 
‘interacting with something we don’t understand can cause anxiety and give us a sense that 
we’re losing control’. Finally, the text mentions the fact that ‘Embarrassing AI failures receive a 
disproportionate amount of media attention, emphasising the message that we cannot rely on 
technology.’
30 The correct answer is i: 
The text refers to an experiment focusing on positive and negative 
views of AI which found that ‘simply watching a cinematic vision of our technological future 
polarised the participants’ attitudes’. If something ‘polarises attitudes’, this means that it divides 
them into two opposing groups. The text then goes on to emphasise this increasing divergence 
of attitudes, saying, ‘Optimists became more extreme in their enthusiasm for AI and sceptics 
became even more guarded.’