50 minutes. Self-marked against the rubric. 12 marks. In the full course this counts toward the labs and cases share (15% of the course grade). Write your answers in the boxes, then open the model answer and tick each mark you earned honestly. Nothing is sent or stored.
Scenario (invented)
Priya manages a small finance team and is deciding how her team should use an AI assistant (invented scenario). The tasks under discussion:
- Draft a friendly email reminding clients of a meeting.
- Find the exact deadline in a regulation.
- Summarise a five-page internal report that she has read.
- Generate three subject-line options for a newsletter.
- Calculate VAT on a list of 40 invoices.
- Paste confidential customer records into a public chatbot to tidy them.
- Rewrite a dense paragraph in plainer English.
- Find recent news about a competitor.
Tasks
Task 1 (4 marks)
Sort tasks 1 to 8 into three groups: A good fit with a read-through; B use only with strong checking; C do not do this way. Give a reason for group C.
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Task 2 (3 marks)
Task 2 asks for the exact deadline in a regulation. Write a three-step plan for using an assistant safely here.
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Task 3 (3 marks)
Rewrite task 6 so that the team can still get help tidying data without exposing customers.
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Task 4 (2 marks)
Write one sentence that states a team rule from this lab.
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Rubric and model answer
Task 1: sort the tasks (4 marks)
Model: A = 1, 3, 4, 7 (drafting, summarising what she has read, brainstorming, rewriting). B = 2, 5, 8 (exact deadline, calculation, recent news). C = 6 (confidential customer records in a public tool). Reason: personal and confidential data may leave the organisation’s control.
Task 2: plan a check (3 marks)
Model: (1) use the assistant only to point to the relevant regulation; (2) read the clause in the official text yourself and note the exact wording; (3) record the date and source in your file before relying on it.
Task 3: make it safer (3 marks)
Model: replace the real records with a few invented rows that have the same layout; ask the assistant for a method or formula; apply it to the real data inside the organisation’s own systems.
Task 4: write a team rule (2 marks)
Model: “We use AI assistants for drafts and ideas we can read and judge, we verify any date, figure or source in the original, and we never paste confidential data into a public tool.”
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