🤖 Understanding AI
Use AI assistants without getting caught: verify, protect your data, spot deepfakes and know your rights.
✓ Free, no sign-upWho is it for?
Complete beginners and regular users who want to understand what they're using.
By the end of this track, you will be able to
- Understand what an AI really does — and what it doesn't
- Write precise prompts and verify the answers
- Never expose sensitive data in a public tool
- Recognize a deepfake by context and know your European rights
The programme
- 1
Understanding AI: What It Really Does, and the 5 Mistakes to Avoid
How AI assistants work, what they do well and badly, hallucinations, confidentiality, and a simple method to use them intelligently starting today.
- 2
AI Under the Hood: 5 Advanced Notions That Change How You Use It
How a model learns, why it “forgets“, where its biases come from, why two answers differ: five plain-language notions that explain the behaviors you observe — and how to turn them to your advantage.
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Recognizing Deepfakes: Why Your Eyes Aren't Enough — and What Works Instead
Cloned voices, fake videos, fabricated images: why visual inspection no longer protects you, and the context-based reflexes that do — call-back, family code word, source verification.
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AI: The Risks That Matter — and the Rights You Already Have
Bias at scale, surveillance, transformed work, polluted information, delegated judgment: AI's five structural risks, the debates laid out honestly — and the concrete rights the GDPR and the AI Act already give you.
📘 The full guide
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