AI Basics

Start from zero

What AI is, where you already meet it, and why it gets things wrong. Two levels, free, no sign-up.

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  1. Read the short topics
  2. Take the quiz, marked on your device
  3. Print your own certificate

Starter

What AI is, where you meet it, and why it gets things wrong

Start here if you have used AI without ever being told what it actually is. No jargon, no maths, nothing to install. Six short topics and a twelve-question check at the end.

6 topics 12 questions from 36Anyone meeting AI for the first time, from about ten years old upwards. No prior knowledge needed.

Next Steps

How it works, what it does to what you see, and what you can ask for

For when you have the basics and want to know what is actually happening. Covers how models are trained, why your feed shows you what it does, deepfakes, using AI in your work, and the rights you have over decisions made about you.

6 topics 12 questions from 36Anyone comfortable with the Starter material — roughly fourteen upwards, including adults who want more than the headlines.

Already comfortable with this and working with AI professionally? The AI governance courses go considerably further and do issue a verifiable Certificate of Completion.