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The summer term is coming to an end (unless you are in Leicester). Not long to go now!
TL;DR: The 60 Second briefing
🧪AI’s economic impact: More than 200 economists warn governments about AI’s economic impact
🚨Keeping Children Safe: The DfE has released its annual update to KCSIE which involves plenty of warnings around the dangers of Generative AI, particularly the risks of image generation.
🚨ChatGPT 5.6: OpenAI have released ChatGPT 5.6 along with an improved voice mode - ChatGPT Live.
📚 AI+education news
🚨 Keeping Children Safe > What it is: From September 2026, Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) explicitly recognises AI-generated intimate images and videos (including deepfakes) as a safeguarding risk. References to “nude or semi-nude images” have been updated to include self-generated intimate images and/or videos created using AI, reflecting the growing misuse of generative AI in child-on-child abuse and online harm.
Why this matters: Generative AI has made it easier than ever to create convincing fake images and videos of children. Staff need to understand that AI-generated deepfakes should be treated as safeguarding concerns in the same way as other forms of image-based abuse. The update also reinforces that safeguarding policies must evolve alongside emerging technologies, not just react to them.
Do this next: I would seriously review policies around
🌍 Wider AI updates
🧪 AI’s economic impact > What it is: Over 200 economists and researchers, including 15 Nobel Prize winners and researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind, have signed a joint statement urging governments to prepare for AI’s economic impact.
Their argument is simple: previous technological revolutions gave societies decades to adapt. AI may give us only a few years.
🚨AI labs pull back on safety > What it is: A new report from the Future of Life Institute suggests that many of the world’s leading AI companies have weakened or abandoned voluntary safety commitments made over the past two years.
The report found that while AI capability continues to accelerate, commitments to pause development if models reached predefined danger thresholds have become less common. Even the highest-scoring company achieved only a C+ overall.
Why it matters: Clearly, safeguarding pupils is one of the core roles of anyone working in education. If these frontier labs are pulling back on previous commitments made, them the work of schools (it always comes back to schools) could become even harder.
🚨ChatGPT 5.6 > What it is: After a short delay requested by the US government while additional safety testing took place, OpenAI has begun rolling out GPT-5.6, its latest family of models. The release includes three models designed to offer different balances of capability, speed and cost. OpenAI says the new models improve reasoning, coding, biology and cybersecurity, while also reducing the cost of using frontier AI. In addition to this, ChatGPT Live introduces new voice models that can listen and speak at the same time, handle interruptions more naturally, wait through pauses and provide brief acknowledgements while someone is talking
🎯AI concepts every teacher should know: 5. Context Window
Every AI model has a limit to how much information it can consider at once. This is called its context window.
The best analogy is working memory.
The context window contains your prompt, earlier messages, uploaded documents and the response being generated. A larger window lets the model work with more information at once.
But bigger does not mean perfect recall.
Models may still overlook details buried in a long conversation, even when those details remain inside the context window. This is why an AI can appear to “forget” something you mentioned earlier.
A larger context window gives the model more working space. It does not guarantee that every part of that space will be used equally well.
This is usually where I sign off ‘till next week’ but I am treating myself to a break over the summer. AI for Schools will be back on its regular schedule in September.
Mr A 🦾
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