AI Foundations for Everyone
Build a clear understanding of AI, choose suitable methods, define work, verify output, apply safeguards, and assemble a reviewed workflow.
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Progress overview
Course sequence
- Module 1: AI Concepts Without the HypeClassify systems from evidence and explain models, data, training, and inference.
- Module 2: Generative AI OutputUnderstand tokens, next-token prediction, prompts, context, retrieval, tools, agents, and why fluent output still needs checking.
- Module 3: Choose the Right MethodChoose among AI, search, calculation, fixed rules, other software, and human-led work using evidence, consequence, and reversibility.
- Module 4: Define the Work ClearlyTurn vague requests into inspectable task specifications with authorised context, boundaries, output formats, and review criteria.
- Module 5: Review Output and EvidenceInspect claims, assumptions, citations, calculations, completeness, and consequence before accepting or using an AI-assisted result.
- Module 6: Control Risk or StopApply privacy, security, fairness, accessibility, rights, policy, oversight, escalation, and stop conditions to AI-assisted work.
- Module 7: Capstone WorkflowCombine task choice, specification, verification, safeguards, testing, evidence, and reflection in one complete workflow.
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