Understand the possibilities
Explain what generative AI does, where it can help and where its limits matter.
HUMAN-FIRST AI LITERACY
AI Foundations
Understand AI.
Think for yourself.
A human-first foundation for learning, work and life.
Build the understanding to use AI with purpose. Recognize what it can contribute, where it can fail and what you bring to the work.
HUMAN SKILLS. PURPOSEFUL PRACTICE.
A stronger starting point.
AI can help you explore unfamiliar ideas, organize information and develop a first draft. Learn what to ask, what to share and what to check. Your curiosity, thinking and voice stay central as you learn, work and create.
Who it is for
For people beginning with AI and those strengthening the basics, including students, working professionals, people preparing for a new role and lifelong learners. Educators and learning leaders can build a shared foundation for responsible use.
Curiosity · Critical thinking · Communication · Judgment
Give useful direction
Provide purpose, context and constraints. Improve a vague request through conversation.
Recognize what needs checking
Notice uncertainty, unsupported claims and possible bias. Protect private information before sharing it.
Keep learning visible
Inspect the output, explain it in your own words and identify your contribution.
A HUMAN-FIRST FOUNDATION
Your thinking belongs at the center.
For you
Understand what AI can offer. Ask better questions, check what matters and keep your own voice.
For your learning community
Establish shared language for AI, privacy and responsible practice. Make understanding visible alongside the finished work.
What comes next
Human × AI Fluency develops repeatable personal practice. Both AI Foundations programs are included when you choose AI Agility.
BRING THE LEARNING INTO REAL WORK
Prepare a presentation you understand.
Choose a topic that matters to you. Use AI to explore and organize ideas, then decide what belongs in the story you want to tell.
Bring your purpose
Name your audience and what you want them to understand.
Explore and question
Compare ideas, check significant claims and notice what is missing.
Make it yours
Explain the central idea in your own words and show what you contributed.
An illustration of applied practice.
CONNECT THE PROGRAM TO YOUR LIFE
Find a useful place to begin.
Choose a situation that feels familiar. Explore an illustrative practice plan and the thinking you could carry into your next task.
You bring the context.
You make the judgment.
You own what comes next.
Illustrative practice plans show how the learning can apply. These examples are not a skills assessment.
Discuss your goalsYOUR PRACTICE COULD LOOK LIKE THIS
I want to understand something new
You are learning an unfamiliar idea for a class, a new role or personal interest. An AI explanation sounds convincing, but you want to understand it yourself.
- Start with what you knowExplain your current understanding and identify the part that is unclear. Ask AI for an example connected to that gap.
- Question the explanationCompare the explanation with a trusted source. Ask about a limit or exception and check whether the example still holds.
- Explain it yourselfPut the answer aside. Describe the idea in your own words, apply it to a new example and identify what you still need to learn.
WHAT YOU COULD CARRY FORWARD
An explanation you understand
A short explanation in your own words, a checked example and a question to explore next. You can see where AI helped and where your understanding grew.
Human-First AI Literacy is a useful starting point when you want to understand AI's contribution while continuing to learn for yourself.
Explore active learning in the curriculumYOUR PRACTICE COULD LOOK LIKE THIS
I want my writing to sound like me
You need to write a message, project introduction or community update. The first AI draft is polished but misses what you actually want to say.
- Name the messageWrite the point you want to make, who needs to hear it and the response you hope for. Keep private details out of the practice material.
- Give focused feedbackAsk AI to help with one part of the draft. Point out what feels inaccurate, generic or unlike you and explain what should change.
- Choose the final wordsCheck the facts, restore your meaning and read the message aloud. Identify the choices you made before you share it.
WHAT YOU COULD CARRY FORWARD
A draft with a visible human contribution
A purpose statement, a first draft and your revision, with a short explanation of what you changed and why.
Literacy helps you give useful direction and retain your voice. Fluency develops that approach into a repeatable practice across recurring writing tasks.
Explore repeatable practice with FluencyYOUR PRACTICE COULD LOOK LIKE THIS
I need to prepare a presentation
Your group is preparing a presentation for a class, team or community. You have ideas and source material, but need a clear story everyone can explain.
- Agree on the purposeDiscuss what the audience should understand. Decide which ideas matter and what information your group can appropriately share with AI.
- Develop the story togetherUse AI to suggest ways to organize your ideas. Compare those options with your group's thinking and return to the sources for significant claims.
- Rehearse the meaningExplain the story without reading the slides. Ask each other questions and revise any part your group cannot yet explain clearly.
WHAT YOU COULD CARRY FORWARD
A presentation your group can explain
A purposeful outline, checked claims and a clear account of what the group contributed. The conversation with each other is part of the learning.
Literacy connects basic AI understanding with learning, writing and presentations while keeping human thinking central.
Explore the presentation and collaboration modulesEXPLORE THE PROGRAM
Full program curriculum
12 modules 6 hours of learning
Approximate learning time
Understanding AI
Build a usable understanding of AI, its limits and safe use.
- What AI Actually Is
- What’s Different This Time
- How AI Learns and Where It Fails
- Staying Safe and Private with AI
Human × AI Collaboration
Give useful direction, improve a first answer and identify what the human adds.
- How to Design Basic AI Prompts
- Telling AI What It Needs to Know
- The Art of Conversation With AI
- What You Bring to AI
Putting AI to Work
Apply judgment to everyday tasks, active learning and work that retains your voice.
- Directing AI for Getting Things Done
- Directing AI to Actually Learn
- Directing AI for Writing with You
- Directing AI for Creating Compelling Presentations
Section knowledge checks sit alongside the teaching modules.
INSIDE EVERY MODULE. IN EVERY PROGRAM.
Learn. Practice. Make it yours.
Asynchronous online learning. Learn at your own pace or with a cohort, with mobile access.
Video
Understand the idea and the purpose of the practice.
Applied exercise with Virgil
Your Agentic Learning Guide provides support, challenge and room to think as you work through the exercise.
Create and reflect
Use the interactive area to create artifacts, examine your choices and improve your work.
Virgil is trained on the program content. Each exercise step has an assigned Human Agency Scale stage that shapes the guidance, scaffolding and space for your own thinking.
Meet VirgilA FEW USEFUL ANSWERS
Make an
informed choice.
Find the learning that fits your goals, your experience and the work ahead.
Who is Human-First AI Literacy for?
It is for people beginning with generative AI and people already using it who want a stronger foundation. Learners, working professionals and people preparing for a new opportunity can all bring meaningful situations to the practice. You do not need to be enrolled in a school or college.
How is Literacy different from Human × AI Fluency?
Literacy builds understanding of AI, its limits and the human contribution. You practice giving direction, questioning an answer and explaining your work. Fluency develops a repeatable approach to recurring tasks through examples, feedback, verification and ownership.
What is useful to bring to the learning?
Bring a question you want to understand, a piece of writing or a presentation idea. Choose material you can appropriately use in an AI exercise. Your curiosity and willingness to explain your thinking give the practice a purpose.
What does the program include?
Human-First AI Literacy includes 12 main modules and approximately 6 hours of learning, with three section knowledge checks. Every module includes video, an applied exercise with Virgil and an interactive area to create and reflect. Community membership is not included with this individual program; it is included with Intermediate Programs.
YOUR PATHWAY CONTINUES
Keep building from here.
Continue into repeatable everyday practice, or deepen the judgment you bring to AI-assisted work.
Choose the learning your work calls for. These are possible next steps, not a required sequence.
Volume pricing available for teams and organizations. Talk to Us
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All prices in USD · Per person
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you build next.
Choose the bundle that fits the capabilities you want to develop. Bring the learning into your real work.
Build collaboration systems
AI Agility
Build your system for working with AI.
$500per person
Volume pricing available for teams and organizations.
Explore what is included
- Human-First AI Literacy12 modules · 6 hours of learning
- Human × AI Fluency15 modules · 8 hours of learning
- AI Agility20 modules · 10 hours of learning
- Applied practice with Virgil
- 12 months of Directing Intelligence Community membership
Both AI Foundations programs are included. Use them as needed; neither is a prerequisite.
Strengthen professional judgment
Responsible AI Agility
Build collaboration systems with stronger responsible AI practice.
$750per person
Volume pricing available for teams and organizations.
Explore what is included
- Human-First AI Literacy12 modules · 6 hours of learning
- Human × AI Fluency15 modules · 8 hours of learning
- Responsible & Ethical AI10 modules · 4–6 hours of learning
- AI Agility20 modules · 10 hours of learning
- Applied practice with Virgil
- 12 months of Directing Intelligence Community membership
For work that calls for deeper attention to privacy, bias, verification and accountability.
Full intermediate track
Applied AI v2
Evolve the way you work with workflows and bounded agents.
$1,000per person
Volume pricing available for teams and organizations.
Explore what is included
- Human-First AI Literacy12 modules · 6 hours of learning
- Human × AI Fluency15 modules · 8 hours of learning
- Responsible & Ethical AI10 modules · 4–6 hours of learning
- AI Agility20 modules · 10 hours of learning
- AI Workflows + Agents20 modules · 10–12 hours of learning
- Applied practice with Virgil
- 12 months of Directing Intelligence Community membership
Combine AI Agility, AI Workflows + Agents and Responsible & Ethical AI. Both AI Foundations programs are included.
Included with every bundle
AI Foundations included27 modules · 14 hours of learning
Applied practice with VirgilUse the learning in applied exercises.
Begin where you areUse the AI Foundations learning as needed.
Bundles with an Intermediate Program include 12 months of Directing Intelligence Community membership. AI Foundations alone does not include membership.
Choose the learning you need now. Our team can help you connect the right bundle to your goals.
Talk about your next stepYOUR NEXT STEP
Talk about what comes next.
Tell us about your learning goals. We can help you choose a program or bundle and discuss the right arrangement for your team.
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Volume pricing available for teams and organizations.
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