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📮 Homework · How real are the AI threats?

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§1

Myth vs Reality: what the loud warnings do and don't say

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🏠 Take-home task

Bring in one AI headline

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Please suggest three real UK news headlines from this week about AI that are pitched at either 'alarming' or 'reassuring'. Do not tell me which is which — I want to work it out from what the underlying article actually says.
Find one AI headline from any UK news source this week and bring it in. Write two sentences: one saying whether the headline is a Myth or a Reality by the standard we used today, and one saying what evidence the article did or did not give.
AI useOptional. If you use an AI you can ask it to find recent UK AI headlines. Any of Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini is fine.
If no AI or internetYou can use a physical newspaper or a school-provided printout.
Bring backOne printed or handwritten headline plus two sentences.
Stay safeNever share your name, school or address with the AI. If the headline covers something you find worrying, talk to a trusted adult.
§2

Reading between the lines: 'kill all humans' in context

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One more implicit assumption

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Please read the BBC News article at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c790xvnzgnno and list three implicit assumptions the article makes without stating them outright — not from the Hubinger paragraph, from elsewhere in the piece. Do not give the reasons.
Read the full BBC article at home (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c790xvnzgnno). Find one more implicit assumption the article makes elsewhere in the piece — outside the Hubinger paragraph. Write one sentence naming the assumption and one sentence saying how the article sets it up.
AI useOptional. If you use an AI you can ask it to list common implicit assumptions in news reporting about AI. Any of Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini is fine.
If no AI or internetYou can complete this with the printed article and a pen.
Bring backTwo sentences, handwritten or typed.
Stay safeNever share your name, school or address with the AI.
§3

Counterexample Hunt: test a confident claim against reality

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One counterexample, one refined claim

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Please read the BBC News article at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c790xvnzgnno and list three confident-sounding claims in the article that would need testing before you passed them on. Do not tell me which would survive.
Read the full BBC article at home (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c790xvnzgnno). Find one claim other than the one the class tested. Write one counterexample against it and one refined version of it.
AI useOptional. If you use an AI you can ask it to find claims in the article that would survive testing and claims that would not. Any of Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini is fine.
If no AI or internetYou can complete this with the printed article and a pen.
Bring backThree sentences: claim, counterexample, refined claim.
Stay safeNever share your name, school or address with the AI.