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AI Risk Literacy: Separating Hype from Real Threat

Build an evidence-based mental model of AI risk so you can evaluate claims, governance debates, and safety narratives without being captured by either hype or denial.

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Career Resilience in the Age of AI Disruption

Design a concrete plan to protect your livelihood and build new value as AI compresses knowledge-worker timelines from decades to years.

6 lessons

Geopolitics, Surveillance, and the Tech Reshaping Power

Read the geopolitical and surveillance forces shaping the next decade so you can assess risk, protect your privacy, and place your life and assets with intention.

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About this course

Future & Technology is the course for adults whose work, money, or family decisions are starting to depend on the answer to questions like “what is AI going to do to my role,” “is this deepfake video real,” or “am I being naïve about geopolitical risk.” The framing is calm, evidence-aware, and committed to being useful five years from now.

The three micro-courses cover AI risk literacy (how to read confident claims about AI, the five categories of risk, asymmetric responses); career resilience in the age of AI disruption (auditing your role, building durable judgement-led work, the 12-month plan); and geopolitics, surveillance, and the emerging-tech forces reshaping power (so you can read the news without being swept by it).

We label this category ‘speculative’ or ‘emerging’ in lots of places under our evidence policy. Predictions about AI capability, automation timelines, and geopolitical realignment are genuinely uncertain. We treat them as scenarios, not forecasts. The point isn't to know the future; it's to make decisions that are robust across plausible versions of it.

If you've been doom-scrolling AI news for a year and want a more useful place to put that energy, this is the course.

Who this course is for

  • Knowledge workers whose role depends on language, judgement, or pattern-matching.
  • Parents thinking about what to teach kids whose careers are 15 years away.
  • Adults whose information diet has become anxiety-shaped and unproductive.
  • Founders making 3-7 year bets about what their company should be doing.
  • Anyone who wants a non-hype, non-doom view of where this is going.

Common problems this course helps with

  • “I can't tell which AI claims to take seriously.”
  • “I'm worried about my job and don't know what to do.”
  • “I feel disoriented by the news every week.”
  • “Friends are making big bets on AI and I don't know how to think about it.”
  • “I want to be ready without becoming a survivalist.”

FAQ

Where should I start?
AI Risk Literacy. It builds the mental model that the other micro-courses depend on.
Is this doomerism?
No. We name real risks, label them by category and timescale, and focus on what an adult can actually do. Doom doesn't help anyone make better decisions.
Is this hype?
Also no. Where claims are speculative, we say so. Where they're emerging, we say so. We don't pretend the future is settled when it isn't.
What if I'm not technical?
All three micro-courses are written for adults regardless of technical background. There's no code, no model architecture deep-dives. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of strategy and risk, not engineering.