Module 1 of 4 · any tool

Understand

Basics that outlast every tool.

We go deeper than AI: data, statistics, incentives and bias, the ideas behind every answer. Six stops in half a day, with live demos and no tool skills needed.

  • Basics that outlast every tool
  • Live demos and real mistakes, not a wall of slides
  • Covers the AI literacy duty of the EU AI Act

After this module, participants can

1Explain why AI calculates with numbers instead of reading words
2Spot when a model learned a shortcut instead of what you meant
3Tell likely from true, and whether an answer was learned or looked up
4Ask three questions before trusting an answer

How the half-day runs

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01
Opening

You're all AI trainers

AI is made by people, and everyone here has already helped.

15 min
02
Stop 1

Everything becomes numbers

AI doesn't read your words; it calculates with numbers that stand for them.

25 min
03
Stop 2

Learning from examples

A model learns what separates the examples, not what you meant.

40 min
04
Stop 3

Inside the network

A neural network is billions of dials, turned until its answers fit the examples.

30 min
05
Stop 4

The guess

It writes what is likely, and likely is not the same as true.

35 min
06
Stop 5

The manners

Its politeness and its refusals are trained habits, and both can bend.

25 min
07
Stop 6

The machine room

Every prompt is a trip to someone else's computer, and the trip has a cost.

15 min
08
Closing

Judge it, then decide

Ask what it's working with, what backs it up, and what happens if it's wrong.

30 min

What you leave with

01A take-home card: six sentences to keep
02Three questions for any AI answer
03A record of AI literacy for the EU AI Act