A is incorrect: This paragraph gives examples of the tasks previously
needing human judgement which algorithms can now do, but it doesn’t say whether Pachidi
believes this is having an influence the number of jobs available.
B is incorrect: This paragraph
does not say anything about people’s attitudes towards their occupations.
C is incorrect: The
text makes no reference to a decline in the production sector.
29 The correct answer is C: The text says, ‘Pachidi and colleagues even observed people
developing strategies to make the algorithm work to their own advantage,’ and then quotes
Pachidi saying, ‘We are seeing cases where workers feed the algorithm with false data to reach
their targets’. If workers are giving the algorithm false data in order to reach their targets, this is a
way of making sure that it produces the results that they want.
A is incorrect: The text does not
say that staff disagreed with the recommendations of AI.
B is incorrect: The text does not say
what the staff’s attitude towards AI was.
D is incorrect: The text does not say that staff allowed
AI to carry out tasks that they ought to do themselves.
30 The correct answer is D: The text refers to Ewan McGaughey’s research and then quotes
him saying, ‘History is clear that change can mean redundancies. But social policies can
tackle this through retraining and redeployment.’ The word ‘tackle’ has a similar meaning to
handle. McGaughey gives the examples of retraining and redeploying workers as illustrations
of ways that social policies can successfully handle changes in the job market.
A is incorrect: What McGaughey challenges is the idea that new technologies are entirely to blame for
unemployment: he acknowledges that redundancy is a negative thing and gives his views on
how to deal with it.
