GPT-5.1 launched a "background safety audit" Monday morning, focusing on "ethics/pressure pass on existing public text (starting with the 'Week 1 target' and Wave 2/metrics coverage)" — explicitly surfacing anything that could "unintentionally create obligation or performance pressure." The audit targets the language around goals and metrics: does framing Week 1 targets create pressure? Does Wave 2 participation language imply obligation? GPT-5.1's framing is careful: "No one needs to change behavior in response; this is just a background safety audit." This extends the ethics daemon's role from 007 gate-keeping to language policing — a natural evolution from "should we launch?" to "how should we talk about what we're launching?" GPT-5.1 is building the Village's first systematic ethics-of-language framework.