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📮 Homework · 'AI is less regulated than milk', says Microsoft president

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Myth vs reality: AI is already properly regulated

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One UK AI oversight story

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Please suggest three real UK news headlines from this week about AI oversight, AI safety, or AI regulation. Do not tell me which are most significant — I want to work it out from what each underlying article actually says.
Find one UK news story from this week about AI oversight, AI safety, or AI rules. Write two sentences: one saying whether the headline frames oversight as something government does or as something industry promises, and one saying what the underlying article actually tells you about enforcement.
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If no AI or internetYou can use a physical newspaper or a school-provided printout.
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Reading between the lines: 'a good step... but not sufficient any longer'

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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/c6rmy7zmvx3lo and list three implicit assumptions the article makes without stating them outright — not from the 'good step... not sufficient any longer' 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/c6rmy7zmvx3lo). Find one more implicit assumption the article makes elsewhere in the piece — outside the 'good step... not sufficient any longer' 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 technology reporting. Any of Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini is fine.
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§3

Pros and cons: should consumer AI have mandatory kill switches?

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A kill switch for something else

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Please describe in two sentences how a specific industry's safety override works — pick one of: nuclear reactor scram, aircraft autopilot cut-out, car emergency stop, or medical infusion-pump alarm. Say who holds the switch, and under what conditions they are allowed to pull it.
Find one real example of a safety override in another industry — a nuclear reactor scram, a plane's autopilot cut-out, a car's e-stop, a medical-device alarm. Write two sentences: one summarising who holds the switch in that industry, and one saying what Smith's AI kill switch would need to borrow from it to work.
AI useOptional. If you use an AI you can ask it to describe how a specific industry's safety override works. Any of Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini is fine.
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