AI literacy course

A full course on how AI works, how to get good results from it, how to check what it tells you, and how to keep your information and accounts safe. It ends by putting it into practice with AI Passport.

22 chapters · 66 lessons

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  1. Understand AI

    Explain in plain words what an AI assistant is made of and why it can produce confident mistakes.

  2. Get useful results

    Ask clearly for what you need, improve the result, and decide which parts of a task to hand over.

  3. Exercise judgement

    Check answers, sources and recommendations, and spot flattery or advice you should take to a person instead.

  4. Protect your information

    Control what AI services keep about you and what connected apps can do, and respond well to AI-assisted scams.

  5. See the wider picture

    Weigh claims about AI's effects on work, ownership and society using evidence.

  6. Put it into practice

    Use AI Passport to carry the context you choose between your AI apps while keeping control of every read.

Understand AI

Build a practical picture of what AI systems do and how assistant apps produce their answers.

Use AI effectively

Use clear requests, careful research and independent practice to get useful help from AI.

Exercise judgement

Check what AI answers really show before you rely on them.

Protect your information and access

Choose what to share with AI services and control the information and actions available to them.

Understand AI's wider role

Examine how AI affects work and public information, and how its benefits and costs are shared.

Apply your learning with AI Passport

Apply the course’s checks to reusable information and app access in AI Passport.

Part 1

Understand AI

Build a practical picture of what AI systems do and how assistant apps produce their answers. Use it to choose the right tool for a job and to see the limits of generated output.

Chapter 1: What AI is and where you encounter it

  1. 1.1The AI apps you meet10 minutes
  2. 1.2AI beyond the chat window10 minutes
  3. 1.3Choose a suitable tool10 minutes

Chapter 2: How AI learns

  1. 2.1How training changes a model10 minutes
  2. 2.2How a model becomes an assistant10 minutes
  3. 2.3Correcting a chat is not retraining10 minutes

Chapter 3: How generative AI works

  1. 3.1How a language model produces text10 minutes
  2. 3.2Images, voice and generated media10 minutes
  3. 3.3Why a detailed explanation is not proof10 minutes

Chapter 4: What an AI assistant consists of

  1. 4.1What happens after you press send10 minutes
  2. 4.2Why a detail appears in one chat10 minutes
  3. 4.3Searching the web and your files10 minutes
Part 2

Use AI effectively

Use clear requests, careful research and independent practice to get useful help from AI. Review writing, generated media, small tools and document analysis against evidence and your own purpose.

Chapter 5: Getting useful results from AI

  1. 5.1Give the task enough information10 minutes
  2. 5.2Improve an answer through follow-up10 minutes
  3. 5.3Break down a task and know when to stop10 minutes

Chapter 6: Researching and learning with AI

  1. 6.1Turn a broad question into a research brief10 minutes
  2. 6.2Read a sourced answer properly10 minutes
  3. 6.3Learn with AI without outsourcing understanding10 minutes

Chapter 7: Writing and creating with AI

  1. 7.1Write it yourself, use AI as a critic10 minutes
  2. 7.2Make images and audio honestly10 minutes
  3. 7.3Build a small tool with AI assistance10 minutes

Chapter 8: Working with documents and data

  1. 8.1Read and summarise documents10 minutes
  2. 8.2Choose the right tool for documents and data10 minutes
  3. 8.3Analyse spreadsheets and charts10 minutes
Part 3

Exercise judgement

Check what AI answers really show before you rely on them. Assess recommendations, preserve your judgement and set practical limits on what systems may do for you.

Chapter 9: Recognising mistakes and checking answers

  1. 9.1Different ways an answer can be wrong10 minutes
  2. 9.2Check a source rather than a reference label10 minutes
  3. 9.3Verify the steps that can change the outcome10 minutes

Chapter 10: Understanding bias and evaluating recommendations

  1. 10.1Where bias enters an AI system10 minutes
  2. 10.2Notice defaults that do not fit your circumstances10 minutes
  3. 10.3Assess a recommendation and its incentives10 minutes

Chapter 11: AI advice and personal judgement

  1. 11.1Separate explanation from personalised advice10 minutes
  2. 11.2Agreement, persuasion and one-sided accounts10 minutes
  3. 11.3When an AI feels like a friend10 minutes

Chapter 12: Deciding what to delegate

  1. 12.1Map a task before handing it over10 minutes
  2. 12.2What agents do differently10 minutes
  3. 12.3Supervise repeated and unattended work10 minutes
Part 4

Protect your information and access

Choose what to share with AI services and control the information and actions available to them. Learn to review saved context, verify suspicious requests and respond when information or access is exposed.

Chapter 13: What happens to your data

  1. 13.1Follow information through an AI service10 minutes
  2. 13.2Share only the information the task needs10 minutes
  3. 13.3Choose a suitable place for private material10 minutes

Chapter 14: Memory, personalisation and control

  1. 14.1What can persist between conversations10 minutes
  2. 14.2Keep personal context relevant and current10 minutes
  3. 14.3Review and remove saved information10 minutes

Chapter 15: Connected apps and AI permissions

  1. 15.1Read what an account connection permits10 minutes
  2. 15.2Limit what a connected assistant can read and do10 minutes
  3. 15.3When content tries to give your assistant orders10 minutes

Chapter 16: Fraud, impersonation and security incidents

  1. 16.1Verify a request through a separate route10 minutes
  2. 16.2Secure your AI account and its recovery routes10 minutes
  3. 16.3Something went wrong: what to do in the next hour10 minutes
Part 5

Understand AI's wider role

Examine how AI affects work and public information, and how its benefits and costs are shared. Apply careful judgement to rights, consent and environmental claims.

Chapter 17: AI at work and changing skills

  1. 17.1Tasks change before job titles do10 minutes
  2. 17.2Measure whether AI improves the work10 minutes
  3. 17.3Use workplace information responsibly10 minutes

Chapter 18: Ownership, consent and accountability

  1. 18.1Who can use AI-generated work10 minutes
  2. 18.2Other people’s voices, images and information10 minutes
  3. 18.3Disclosure and responsibility for the result10 minutes

Chapter 19: AI’s effects on society

  1. 19.1Synthetic content and public information10 minutes
  2. 19.2Who benefits, who decides and who is left out10 minutes
  3. 19.3Environmental impacts and AI headlines10 minutes
Part 6

Apply your learning with AI Passport

Apply the course’s checks to reusable information and app access in AI Passport. Practise connections, source reads and account reviews while keeping evidence and permissions separate.

Chapter 20: Understand AI Passport

  1. 20.1What Passport does alongside your assistants10 minutes
  2. 20.2Memories, sources and Your Second Brain10 minutes
  3. 20.3How keeping information and allowing access differ10 minutes

Chapter 21: Connect your tools and use context

  1. 21.1Connect your first AI app and test a memory10 minutes
  2. 21.2Link a source containing useful information10 minutes
  3. 21.3Use context to complete a useful task10 minutes

Chapter 22: Use Passport across your AI apps

  1. 22.1Carry useful memory to a second app10 minutes
  2. 22.2Work with saved material in Your Second Brain10 minutes
  3. 22.3Keep context accurate and control ongoing access10 minutes

A clear path from your first lesson to your final assessment.

Start the course

  1. Complete the course

    Pass every lesson checkpoint and complete any Passport steps.

  2. Pass each checkpoint

    Answer every question correctly to pass a checkpoint.

  3. Pass the final assessment

    24 / 30

    Minimum final score

    Then pass the final assessment with at least 24 correct answers out of 30 questions.

AI Literate
Issuer
Egoist Machines, Inc.
Course version
0.1.0