# AI Foundations for Everyone > An online, self-paced AI course from ARFA, the TIBLOGICS AI Academy. Beginner level, about 24.5 hours, in English and French, with a verifiable certificate. Web page: https://tiblogics.com/learning-box/ai-foundations · All tracks: https://tiblogics.com/learning-box.md ## Key facts - Level: Beginner - Time: about 24.5 hours including hands-on work (9 modules, 36 lessons, 9 labs); self-paced, no deadline - Price: $297 one time for lifetime access to this track, or every track for $89 a month (cancel anytime) - Certificate: TIBLOGICS Certified AI Foundations, with a public verification page - Languages: English and French ## About Most AI courses assume you already know what a "model" is. This one doesn't. We start with what the word "AI" actually means, why these tools behave the way they do, and what they genuinely can and cannot do. Then you'll use them — properly, with real tasks — and learn to judge what comes back rather than accepting it. By the end you'll be able to hold your own in any conversation about AI at work, use these tools daily without embarrassing yourself, and spot the difference between something genuinely useful and something confidently wrong. No coding. No maths. No prior experience of any kind. Skills this track builds also appear in AI fluency and AI literacy courses from AI labs and technology companies. This track is independent: it is not affiliated with any of them and is not official preparation for any certificate. Who it is for: Anyone who uses a phone and email but has never seriously used an AI tool. Especially useful if you've been told you 'should be using AI' and don't know where to begin. ## What you will be able to do - Explain in plain language what AI is and how it produces answers - Get genuinely useful results from AI tools instead of vague ones - Spot a confident wrong answer and check it in under two minutes - Know what is unsafe to paste into a chatbot, and why - Recognise AI-generated images, audio and video - Build a weekly routine that keeps your skills current without drowning in news ## Curriculum ### Module 1: What AI Actually Is Strip away the marketing and the science fiction. What these systems are, how they came to be, and what they are genuinely doing when they answer you. - The word "AI" and what it hides (25 min) - How a model learns from examples (30 min) - What today's AI can and can't do (25 min) - Where AI already touches your day (20 min) - Module quiz ### Module 2: Talking to AI Tools The practical skill of getting genuinely useful output. Context, specificity, format, and what to do when the answer is wrong. - Your first real conversation (30 min) - Context is everything (30 min) - Asking for a format (25 min) - When the answer is wrong (30 min) - Module quiz ### Module 3: Judging What Comes Back The skill that separates competent AI users from dangerous ones: knowing when to trust the answer and how to check it fast. - Hallucination, plainly explained (30 min) - Checking a claim in 90 seconds (25 min) - Bias in, bias out (30 min) - When not to use AI at all (25 min) - Module quiz ### Module 4: AI for Everyday Work Concrete, repeatable uses that save real time in a normal working week. - Writing and editing (30 min) - Summarising and extracting (30 min) - Planning and thinking out loud (25 min) - Learning something new with AI (25 min) - Module quiz ### Module 5: Your Data and Your Privacy What actually happens to what you type, what should never go in, and how to work with AI safely at your job. - What happens to what you type (25 min) - What never to paste into a chatbot (25 min) - Reading a privacy setting (25 min) - AI at work: policies and common sense (25 min) - Safe AI use: keys, data and scams (20 min) - Module quiz ### Module 6: Images, Audio and Video Generative AI beyond text — how it works, how to use it, and how to spot it being used on you. - How image generation works (25 min) - Making your first images (30 min) - Voice, music and video (25 min) - Deepfakes and spotting fakes (30 min) - Module quiz ### Module 7: Building an AI Habit Turning what you've learned into a sustainable practice — and keeping current without drowning in noise. - Choosing your tools (25 min) - A weekly AI routine (25 min) - Keeping up without drowning (25 min) - Module quiz ### Module 8: Seeing the Whole System Learn to see the people, habits, rules and tools around an AI tool, spot feedback loops and knock-on effects, and check the whole picture before you automate anything. - Everything is part of a system (20 min) - Feedback loops and knock-on effects (25 min) - Before you automate, look around (25 min) - Module quiz ### Module 9: AI Fluency: Working With AI Well Bring everything in this course together with the four competencies of AI fluency: deciding what to hand to AI, describing it clearly, judging what comes back, and owning what you do with it. - What AI fluency means (and why it is more than prompting) (15 min) - Delegation: what to hand to AI, and what to keep (17 min) - Description: saying what you actually want (18 min) - Discernment: judging the output and the process (18 min) - Diligence: owning what you publish (17 min) - Module quiz ## How you are assessed - A quiz after each module (80% to pass, retakes allowed). - A timed final exam: 30 questions in 60 minutes, 75% to pass, 90% for distinction, 3 attempts. - A capstone project reviewed by a person against a published rubric (70% to pass). - Each certificate has a public page at https://tiblogics.com/certificates/ that anyone can open to check it.