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📮 Homework · OpenAI scraps rollout of GPT-6.1 Astra over safety concerns

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Reading between the lines: 'didn't quite meet the bar'

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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/cm5y5nynl75ko and list three implicit assumptions the article makes without stating them outright — not from the 'didn't quite meet the bar' 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/cm5y5nynl75ko). Find one more implicit assumption the article makes elsewhere in the piece — outside the 'didn't quite meet the bar' paragraph. Write one sentence naming the assumption and one sentence saying how the article sets it up.
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§2

Stakeholder map: who wants what, on agent safety?

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The missing stakeholder

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Please list five groups of people who are directly affected by whether OpenAI releases a new agentic AI model, but who are NOT quoted in the BBC News article at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm5y5nynl75ko. Give one sentence for each on what they most care about.
Read the full BBC article at home (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm5y5nynl75ko). Name one stakeholder the article does NOT quote but who is directly affected by whether OpenAI can release GPT-6.1 Astra. In two sentences: name them, and say what they most care about.
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§3

Debate: should governments require external safety review before agent models can be released?

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The argument the class missed

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Please summarise the BBC News article at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm5y5nynl75ko in three sentences, then name one argument on either side of the motion 'Governments should legally require independent external safety review before any AI agent model can be released' that is only implied and not stated outright.
Read the full BBC article at home (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm5y5nynl75ko). Find one argument, on either side of the motion, that did not come up in the class debate. Write two sentences: one naming the argument, one saying whether it would have changed your vote.
AI useOptional. If you use an AI you can ask it to summarise the article or suggest arguments the class might have missed. 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.