Skills
A skill is something you can demonstrate. Each skill describes what you can do and how to recognize it.
Prompts and guidance
Tell AI what you need and guide its response with follow-up requests so you can assess the result.
3 skills
- Improve an answer with a targeted follow-upI can improve an AI answer with a follow-up that names what to change and preserves what already works.
- Try before asking AII can make my own attempt first, then ask AI for a hint or feedback instead of a complete solution.
- Write a clear promptI can write an AI prompt that states the task, relevant context, desired format, and checkable limits.
Evaluation and comparison
Decide in advance what makes a good result, then check or compare outputs against those criteria.
2 skills
Information and sources
Keep outputs grounded in the material you provide and check which sources support the information.
3 skills
- Research with visible sourcesI can use AI to find current information while seeing its sources and distinguishing source content from AI’s summary.
- Transform material faithfullyI can use AI to transform material I provide without adding invented details, while keeping missing information visible.
- Verify a claim against its sourceI can verify an AI-generated claim against its original source before using it.
Judgement and responsibility
Choose where to use AI, limit experiments, and keep decisions and approval with people.
4 skills
- Choose a task to delegate to AII can choose a task or part of a task for AI to prepare and explain why that part is suitable.
- Scope a small AI experimentI can limit an AI experiment to one task and decide in advance how I will recognize success.
- Set a human approval pointI can mark where a person must review and approve an AI-assisted work step before anyone acts on its result.
- Use AI to support a decisionI can ask AI to lay out options and trade-offs, then make the decision on my own grounds.
Privacy and security
Decide what information to share with a service, check its settings, and verify unusual requests.
3 skills
- Check an AI service’s data settingsI can find the data settings for the AI service I use and verify a privacy claim in the provider’s official source.
- Minimize data before sharingI can remove personal and confidential information before sharing material with an AI service while keeping the task possible.
- Verify a request through another channelI can verify an urgent or financial request through a different channel I choose before acting on it.
Communication and creative work
Adapt text for its reader, guide creative drafts, and check rights before publishing.
3 skills
- Check rights before publishingI can check a service’s terms and my own usage rights before publishing content made with AI.
- Guide image, video, or music generationI can guide an image, video, or music tool with a description that separates content, style, and limits, then assess drafts for their intended use.
- Revise text for its readerI can use AI to adapt text to a reader’s needs while preserving its meaning and facts.
Workflows and agents
Make successful methods repeatable, test them, and limit what tools and agents can do.
4 skills
- Handle untrusted content read by AII can limit what AI can do when it reads webpages, emails, or documents written by others, and check for instructions, requests, and links that came from that material.
- Separate read and change actionsI can distinguish whether a tool used by AI reads information or changes something, and require human approval for changes.
- Test a solution with sample casesI can test a solution made with AI, such as a reusable instruction, workflow, or code, on ordinary and difficult examples before using it.
- Write a reusable work instructionI can write an instruction for a recurring task that names the inputs, steps, expected result, and review point so it can be reused.
Practice map
Every guide's practice activity and your progress through each stage.
53 practice activities5 stages
- 01Start hereSee how AI turns the information you give it into a suggestion
- 02Where does AI appear in everyday life? — recognise the suggestion and decide for yourself
- 03Write an AI request that gives you a useful draft
- 04Prompting next steps — ask, check and improve
- 05Choose an AI assistant by testing the same task
- 06How to explain AI to someone close to you — try one question together
- 01ChatGPT for beginners — turn options into your own plan
- 02Claude for beginners — turn your material into a finished document
- 03Gemini for beginners — understanding images
- 04Microsoft Copilot for beginners — first find out which Copilot you have
- 05Grok for beginners — make current information useful
- 06ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini or Grok? — choose your first experiment
- 07Compare options with AI, then decide for yourself
- 08Check what an AI service does with the information you type
- 09AI security: an advanced guide
- 10Open AI models — a low-pressure first try
- 11AI for learning — test what you really understood
- 12AI for hobbies: from an idea to your first try
- 13AI scams: stop and verify before acting
- 14AI can explain. Your doctor confirms.
- 15Perplexity for beginners — an answer you can check yourself
- 16AI for language learning — correct your text and explain why
- 01Write a team status update without invented facts
- 02AI for entrepreneurs — a practical guide
- 03Use AI to turn notes into a clear message
- 04AI and children: a guide for parents
- 05AI for associations and volunteers
- 06AI can help you think through a decision. You remain responsible for it.
- 07Use AI to support accessibility, then check the result
- 08AI for job searching — CVs and cover letters
- 09AI for money matters: organise expenses and understand the terms
- 10AI for teachers: adapt one lesson for three reading levels
- 01What is Llama? — a model family for beginners
- 02What is Mistral? — an open model or a commercial service?
- 03Can you train AI yourself? — the basics of fine-tuning
- 04Check an AI claim against its original source
- 05AI and copyright — how to check your rights
- 06Five basic AI terms: LLM, token, context window, hallucination and prompt
- 07How does a chatbot actually work?
- 08How does AI search for information? Regular search vs. AI search
- 09What are RAG and vector databases? Explained with a kitchen analogy
- 10Create your first AI-generated image
- 11What is an AI agent? An assistant with permission to act
- 12Make your first AI video
- 13Create your first AI song
- 01When AI uses another program: reading or making changes?
- 02Small AI models on your phone — what local processing means
- 03Build a small AI app without coding — choose one task
- 04How an AI project takes shape: from idea to finished result
- 05Can AI write code?
- 06Model, service and feature: three different layers
- 07AI voice mode — ask out loud when you cannot type
- 08Check the sources behind an AI answer