🕓 LEARNING TIME

3h 35m - 4h

🗓️ SELF-PACED

Take the course at your own pace with bite-sized lessons available at any time

👤 WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?

Any public servant or policymaker who's new to AI and wants an introduction to the topic, plus guidance on the AI tools that could help them at work and where to begin.

Course overview

Intro

We know that public servants want to embrace tools that make their difficult jobs easier and allow them to serve citizens better. But where AI is concerned, it’s difficult to know where to begin. It can feel like the technology is speeding ahead, and news headlines are dominated by everything that can go wrong and the outcomes that worry us.

In this free introductory course, you’ll discover that you don’t need to be a tech expert to understand how AI impacts you and your work. You’ll learn that AI is not as scary or even as ‘intelligent’ as you first thought, and – as you start exploring potential solutions to old problems – you’ll build the confidence to share what you have learned with your colleagues along the way.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Define what AI is, what it can and can’t do and why this matters

  • Recognise the main benefits and risks of AI in a public sector context

  • Identify ways to harness AI for the good of public servants and the public

  • Discuss how public servants can use AI tools responsibly

Founding funders

This course is part of the Government AI Campus, a bold new programme to upskill and prepare 10,000 policymakers to lead in the age of AI. The Campus is supported by founding funders Google.org and The Rockefeller Foundation. All our course content is independently researched and designed by Apolitical, with and for governments.

Google.org and the Rockefeller Foundation

Course outline

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