askKira newsletter
Every week we read the AI developments that matter for UK schools, trusts and organisations, and say plainly what each one means. Every edition is here.
New data from the NEU reveals that 49% of schools have no AI policy whatsoever, with 66% lacking anything specific to student use. Despite DfE guidance being published, schools have been left to draft their own frameworks without templates or standards. Effective policies need not be lengthy; the strongest examples fit on a single page with named tools, clear boundaries and one accountable person.
As AI agents take on tasks like approving purchases, moving data and delegating work to other systems, the governance gap becomes impossible to ignore. One post this week draws a sharp analogy: you would not run a 10,000-person company with a single instruction, yet many organisations treat AI governance that way. The question has shifted from "can the agent do this?" to "who authorised it, and who is accountable if it fails?"
Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and OpenAI's Sam Altman have each made public statements in recent weeks calling for coordinated slowdowns, external oversight and independent evaluation bodies for frontier AI. Researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic on 8 September, citing existential risk concerns. A detailed audit of 24 widely circulated AGI predictions found 19 were too poorly defined to be testable, and the two that were testable both missed their deadlines.