Course

AI Literacy Essentials

The shared baseline for everyone in an organisation who uses AI at work: what generative AI is and how it works, how to ask for what you want, what never to paste into a tool, how to check what comes back, and where bias gets in. It gives everyone the common foundation the European Commission's guidance describes, before any training tailored to their role.

7 modules, about 118 minutes in total, self-paced

What is in it

  • 1. 28 minutes

    Introduction to Generative AI

    A practical starting point for teams who need a shared vocabulary, a working mental model, and a clear sense of what these tools are good for.

  • 2. 15 minutes

    How Does Generative AI Work?

    Your words as LEGO bricks: tokens, the blueprint, the librarians and the next brick, in fifteen visual minutes.

  • 3. 15 minutes

    Working With Intent-Driven Interfaces

    For anyone whose software now has a box that asks what they want: how to say it well, and how to check work you did not watch being made.

  • 4. 15 minutes

    Shadow AI: Pause Before You Paste

    For everyone who reaches for an AI tool to get the work done: what counts as shadow AI, what should never be pasted into one, and how to pause and decide before you do.

  • 5. 15 minutes

    Misinformation and Deepfakes

    Human deepfake detection is close to chance. So this teaches the process instead: check where a claim started, agree a second channel, and respond when you are targeted.

  • 6. 15 minutes

    AI Ethics

    AI reflects the decisions of the people who build and buy it. Where bias gets in, how a system ends up optimising for the wrong thing, and the four questions to ask before a use of AI goes live.

  • 7. 15 minutes

    Avoiding AI Slop

    What AI slop is, what it costs a team in time and trust, and the checks that keep it out of your own work.

The rest of the catalogue

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