Deepen employer relationships.
Help organizations develop their people and put AI to work on the priorities that matter to them.
Higher education partnerships
Build human capability.
Create regional impact.
Bring Human-First AI capability to your institution and the employers, schools, and communities you serve.
Read the film summary
Intelligence is becoming abundant. The capacity to direct it well is not. A pencil draws an orange asterisk over machine-generated text.
Most AI is built in a handful of places. But it changes the way we work and learn in every region, including yours.
A charge nurse reviews an overnight summary. Deciding what matters is still hers. A machinist checks an AI-written program. He knows what good looks like on this part. A biology teacher questions an AI explanation. Her students need to learn what to trust. An accounting-firm owner reviews a client letter. Her name goes on every one.
Deciding what matters, what good looks like, what to trust, and who is responsible. That’s Directing Intelligence.
The same work now faces a new nurse, an apprentice machinist, a younger student and a first-year associate. Most people are learning it alone. The film cites ManpowerGroup’s 2026 finding that 56% of surveyed workers reported no recent training.
“This time, access isn’t the gap. Everyone will have AI. Directing Intelligence doesn’t come with it.” The film argues that people who have not had the chance to build Human Agency are most likely to let AI take over their work.
Higher education has helped generations of people, from all walks of life, build the Human Agency they need to shape a life they value. A timeline connects land-grant institutions, the GI Bill, the call for public community colleges and today’s need for human capability.
humanskills.ai partners with a network of colleges and universities to prepare their regions for the Agency Economy. A regional map connects an institution with employers, K–12 schools, other colleges and universities, and workforce development.
We are all Directing Intelligence now. Human First | AI Forward. Lead your region into the Agency Economy. Join our growing higher education network.
Regional Catalyst Partnerships
A stronger region.
A stronger institution.
Help the people you serve shape what comes next.
Bring practical AI learning to employers, schools and communities. Your relationships and regional knowledge shape the opportunity. We develop it with you.
Share in the opportunity.
Create regional impact and new opportunities for your institution through generous revenue sharing.
Build capability on campus.
Partner discounts for your people and no-cost program access for Catalyst Partner leaders.
Have a partner beside you.
Build the offering together, with outreach, events, co-branded materials and a dedicated partnership microsite.
How we support the partnership
Your institution leads locally. Bring your mission, relationships and insight into the people you want to serve. Together, we shape the offering and outreach.
We help you keep moving. Maintained learning resources, program updates and specialist support help sustain the work. We review participation and feedback together, then refine the next opportunities.
AI programs for employers
Bring learning
to the work.
Extend your workforce offerings with practical learning that helps employers get more from their AI investment.
Start with the decisions, tasks and workflows that matter to a business, a health system, a public agency or a nonprofit.
Open enrollment
Connect professionals from different organizations through a shared learning opportunity.
Employer cohorts
Focus on one employer’s people, priorities and practical application.
Institutional AI Capability Building
Build on the work
already underway.
Support your people as they learn, teach and lead with AI.
Give faculty, staff and leaders a shared way to direct AI, evaluate its work and take responsibility for the result. Begin with a focused group or explore broader institutional access.
- Teaching and learning with human judgment
- Student services and everyday institutional work
- Leadership and responsible practice
Our flagship program
AI Agility
Get the most out of
your AI investment.
Build a repeatable way to work with AI: frame the task, provide context, set quality criteria and challenge the output. Apply it to the work your people already do.
AI Foundations included.
Human-First AI Literacy + Human × AI Fluency.
An accessible place to begin
AI Foundations
Understand AI.
Learn to work with it.
Two complementary programs for people getting started, occasional users and groups building a shared foundation.
Human-First AI Literacy
Understand what AI can and cannot do, where human judgment matters, and how to use it thoughtfully in learning, work and life.
Human × AI Fluency
Develop practical habits for directing AI: ask useful questions, provide context, review the response and stay responsible for the result.
More programs and bundles
Responsible & Ethical AI
Build judgment about privacy, bias, verification, consequences and accountability in everyday work.
AI Workflows + Agents
Connect tasks and shape bounded agents with human direction, review and ownership.
AI Agility + Responsible AI
Applied AI collaboration with deeper responsible and ethical practice.
Applied AI
AI Agility + Responsible & Ethical AI + AI Workflows + Agents.
A few useful answers
A partnership that
fits your institution.
Where can we begin?
Start with an employer opportunity, a focused institutional need, or both. You do not need to purchase a campus-wide license to begin a partnership conversation.
Can we begin with AI Foundations?
Yes. AI Foundations brings together Human-First AI Literacy and Human × AI Fluency for people getting started, occasional AI users and groups building shared understanding. We can help your institution shape access around the people you want to reach.
How is AI Agility different?
AI Foundations develops understanding and practical habits. AI Agility builds reusable Human × AI collaboration systems: context, instructions, ways to challenge assumptions and standards for reviewing the work. Both Foundations programs are included with AI Agility.
How do we deliver the learning?
HumanSkills provides digital asynchronous programs and live kick-offs in the agreed delivery model. Your institution administers participation and co-facilitates learning in its own context. Together, we define support and practical application.
What happens after the first conversation?
We identify the people to reach, the capability to build, who will lead and when to begin. Then we shape a focused plan together.
Support for higher education institutions
What would be useful
for your institution?
Let us know what you’d like to explore. We’ll be in touch to discuss what would be useful for your institution.
You’re welcome to ask about task force support, explore a partnership, or bring us a question.