Question 1: Which of the following words would replace the blank given…

Directions : In the following passage, certain words are highlighted which may or may not be fit in the sentence either grammatically or contextually. Each word is numbered followed by four possible replacements. If none of the given options could replace the highlighted word, mark your answer, (e); “None of the above”.AI also presents serious data privacy concerns. The algorithm’s never-ending quest for data has led to our digital footprints being spurt (7) and sold without our knowledge or informed consent. We are constantly being profiled in service of customisation, putting us into echo chambers of like-mindedness, diminishing exposure to varied viewpoints and eroding common ground. Today, it is no decree (8) to say that with all the discrete bytes of information floating about us online, the algorithms know us better than we know ourselves. They can extraneous (9) our behaviour without our noticing. Our level of addiction to our devices, the inability to resist looking at our phones, and the chilling case of Cambridge Analytics — in which such algorithms and big data were used to alter voting decisions — should serve as a potent warning of the individual and societal concerns resulting from current AI business models. In a world where the algorithm is king, it reparation (10) us to remember that it is still humans — with all our biases and prejudices, conscious and unconscious — who are responsible for it. We shape the algorithms and it is our data they operate on. Remember that in 2016, it took less than a day for Microsoft’s Twitter chat bot, christened “Tay”, to start prevailing (11) egregious racist content, based on the material it encountered.