AI Foundations: What It Is and How to Use It
Start here — the ideas everything else builds on
The starting point. What AI actually is in plain English, why it behaves the way it does, what it is genuinely good and bad at, how to brief it so you get useful work back, and how to use it without putting yourself or your clients at risk. No jargon, no hype, and nothing assumed.
What you'll be able to do
- Explain in plain English what AI is doing when it answers you
- Predict where it will be strong and where it will let you down
- Write a brief that gets useful work back the first time
- Spot a wrong answer before it costs you something
- Decide what is safe to put into an AI tool, and what is not
- Choose your first real task and get a result from it this week
Chapters
Included resources
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Free
AI Foundations Cheat Sheet
Cheat sheet · read on site
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Free
AI Foundations Workbook
Workbook · fill in online, export as PDF
Workbooks are filled in on the site and exported with your answers. Included with a Learn plan.
Next on the path
Practical Prompting: Getting Better Answers Out of AI
What to do when the basics stopped being enough
Read the whole course
The first chapter is free. A Learn plan opens the rest — and the workbook.
No card required to start.
