Judging Criteria
Prepare your presentation.
Project Submission
(Microsoft Word or PDF document of no more than eight pages, or a
PowerPoint presentation no longer than ten slides)
• Title Page/Title Slide
• Table of Contents
• Identify which AI for Good Initiative you chose:
o AI for Earth
o AI for Humanitarian Action
o AI for Accessibility
o AI for Cultural Heritage
• State your problem
• Summarize your research and list the resources your team used to help understand the problem.
• Generally describe how your project solves a problem. For example it may:
o create or improve something that will eventually lead to a solution to the real-world
problem
o create or improve a service that addresses the real-world problem
o communicate a message to an audience responsible for addressing the real-world
problem, or its consequences.
• Tell how your project idea is ethical.
o Consider: Fairness, Reliability and Safety, Privacy, Inclusiveness, Transparency, and
Accountability
• Creatively show how your project engages the problem and why this solution is needed.
• Describe the format of the project and how it uses AI (be specific, how will it work, what form
will it take, and why is it the best solution for engaging the real-world problem)
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Criteria
Each out of 3 Low Impact Medium Impact High Impact
Innovation: How original is the The AI idea is not innovative at The AI idea shows some The AI idea is exceptionally
idea, compared to other all. It is already in existence and innovation and brings some innovative, and is likely to be a
submissions, or other uses of AI widely used. new concepts to the field of AI. new idea, or a significant
that already exist? contribution to the field.
(1) (2)
(3)
Buildability: How realistic is it It is very unlikely that this AI This AI idea has some potential This AI idea could be absolutely
that this concept could be built idea could ever be built. to be built now, or in the next be built now, or in the next ten
in the next ten years? ten years. years.
(1)
(2) (3)
Potential for Impact: Does the The potential for people / There is potential for impact for There is potential for impact for
idea have potential for scale, environmental impact is minimal people / environment because people/environment because
either by impacting people or because the AI idea is not the AI idea is somewhat the AI idea is definitely scalable.
the environment in a powerful scalable. scalable.
way? (3)
(1) (2)
Presentation of the idea: How The AI idea was presented in a The AI idea was presented in a The AI idea was presented with
effectively and creatively has the way that is difficult to clear way, and/or a creative way. exceptional clarity and/or
team presented the idea? understand, or in a way that creativity.
lacked creativity. (2)
(3)
(1)
Ethical score: How well does
this idea meet the Microsoft AI
principles? (These are below)
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Each out of .5 Low Impact Medium Impact High Impact
Fairness: AI systems treat all Unfortunately, the AI idea The AI idea strives to accept The AI idea very effectively
people fairly. excludes many people. many people. accepts all people.
(0) (0.25) (0.5)
Inclusiveness: AI systems Unfortunately, the AI idea The AI idea has some ways in The AI idea very effectively
empower everyone and engage doesn’t consider the which it aims to consider the considers the empowerment
people. empowerment and engagement empowerment and engagement and engagement of everyone.
of everyone. of everyone.
(0.5)
(0) (0.25)
Reliability and Safety: AI Unfortunately, the AI idea does The AI idea does have some The AI idea very effectively
systems perform reliably and not consider the reliability and consideration for the reliability maximizes reliability and safety
safely. safety of others. and safety of others. of others.
(0) (0.25) (0.5)
Privacy and Security: AI Unfortunately, the AI idea does The AI idea has the potential to The AI idea is very likely to be
systems are secure and respect not show that is secure and be secure and respectful of secure and respectful of privacy.
privacy. respectful of privacy. privacy.
(0.5)
(0) (0.25)
Transparency: AI systems are Unfortunately, the data and The data and workings of the AI The data and workings of the AI
understandable. workings of the AI idea will be idea are likely to be relatively idea will be easy to understand.
difficult to understand. easy to understand.
(0.5)
(0) (0.25)
Accountability: AI systems are Unfortunately, the AI idea has a The AI idea has some likelihood The AI idea has a strong
algorithmically accountable. low likelihood that it can be that it can be safely controlled likelihood that it can be safely
safely controlled by humans. by humans. controlled by humans.
(0) (0.25) (0.5)
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