Unit

Fundamentals

What the technology actually is, what it does with what you give it, and what it cannot do.

10 modules, about 180 minutes in total, self-paced

Modules in this unit

  • AI LiteracyNew releaseUpdated

    Introduction to Generative AI

    28 minutes, 2 lessons, self-paced, narrated, captioned and audio described

    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.

  • AI LiteracyNew releaseUpdated

    Misinformation and Deepfakes

    15 minutes, self-paced, narrated, captioned and audio described

    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.

  • AI LiteracyNew releaseUpdated

    Shadow AI: Pause Before You Paste

    15 minutes, self-paced, narrated, captioned and audio described

    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.

  • AI LiteracyNew releaseUpdated

    AI Ethics

    15 minutes, self-paced, narrated, captioned and audio described

    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.

  • AI LiteracyNew releaseUpdated

    Working With Intent-Driven Interfaces

    15 minutes, self-paced, narrated, captioned and audio described

    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.

  • AI LiteracyNew releaseUpdated

    How Does Generative AI Work?

    15 minutes, self-paced, narrated, captioned and audio described

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

  • AI LiteracyNew releaseUpdated

    AI Alignment

    14 minutes, self-paced, narrated, captioned and audio described

    For anyone who sets a goal for an AI system: why it takes the route you never specified, and the controls that keep an agent from drifting unseen.

  • AI LiteracyEarly production

    Critical Thinking in the Age of AI

    28 minutes, 2 lessons, self-paced, narrated, captioned and audio described

    Answers got cheap, so judgement got valuable. Why critical thinking became the scarce skill, what happens to it when a tool starts doing your thinking, and four moves to keep it sharp.

  • AI LiteracyEarly production

    Avoiding AI Slop

    15 minutes, self-paced, narrated, captioned and audio described

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

  • AI LiteracyEarly production

    Scams and Fraud in the Age of AI

    20 minutes, 2 lessons, self-paced, narrated, captioned and audio described

    Online safety for the age when a personal scam costs nothing to make.

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