What do you think about this AI's take?
A B2 practice pack following a short video in which an AI answers a hard question about military AI oversight. Learners practise answering uncomfortable workplace questions honestly, challenging reassuring framings, spotting rubber-stamp oversight and proposing safeguards. Suits one-to-one or small groups of professionals who work with automated or AI-supported processes.
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What's inside
- Video-based sequencing
- Deflect or honest classification
- Sentence rewriting
- Polite challenge writing and oral response
- Tick-box analysis of systems
- Discussion
- Hot-seat questioning with push-back
- Memo writing
By the end, learners can
- Identify the moves in a well-structured honest answer and reuse them in a 60-second spoken response
- Distinguish deflecting replies from honest ones and rewrite deflections as honest answers
- Challenge reassuring claims politely by asking the real question
- Evaluate whether human oversight of an automated process is meaningful or a rubber stamp
- Write a 150-word memo proposing realistic safeguards for human review
Skills: Speaking · Listening · Writing · Vocabulary
Suits: Managers · HR · Finance · Compliance and risk · Professionals working with AI or automated systems
Language practised: Answering honestly rather than deflecting · Expressing concern at different strengths · Challenging a framing politely · Holding a position under push-back · Proposing safeguards persuasively · Separating what you control from what you think
Pairs with
Lesson 7: What do you think about this AI's take? →
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