Get fresh perspectives and insights into the actionable approaches needed to build back smarter after inflation. Be inspired to transform your organisation while delivering profits.
Get fresh perspectives and insights into the actionable approaches needed to build back smarter after inflation. Be inspired to transform your organisation while delivering profits.
Get fresh perspectives and insights into the actionable approaches needed to build back smarter after inflation. Be inspired to transform your organisation while delivering profits.
Artificial intelligence
Understanding and applying AI in business
Improve your productivity and stay relevant in the age of artificial intelligence (AI), with insights from The Economist’s journalists and Tom Chatfield, an expert on technology and society. The course provides a solid grounding for applying AI at work, showing you how to capitalise on its opportunities and mitigate the risks—enabling you to prepare for AI’s impacts on you, your organisation and the world.
About the programme
Cut through the confusion, hype and panic about AI to gain clarity on its applications and implications in business. This two-week, online course demystifies large language models like ChatGPT, explaining their evolution, power and flaws, and guiding you to use them effectively.
Interactive exercises will train you in techniques for prompting AIs to get valuable results and real-world examples reveal how companies can use the technology to their advantage. A focus on overarching principles—not baffling technical details—equips executives to make informed decisions about AI. Insights from leading experts and The Economist’s journalists, together with personal feedback from experienced tutors, combine to provide the essential knowledge and skills you need to flourish in the era of algorithms.
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This isn't just a course about what AI can do. It's about what it means to become a confident, critically discerning user of AI: to equip yourself with principles, questions and strategies that will help you ride the coming waves of disruption.
Expert on technology and society, and course founder
Programme modules
The first module covers the evolution of AI, and looks at the limits and capabilities of the technology in business.
This module explains how to get the most out of large language models by prompting them effectively, and how to mitigate common AI risks.
Programme benefits
This course is for professionals determined to stay relevant in the age of algorithms. As AI reshapes industries, mastering its tools is not just an advantage—it's an imperative.
Understand how AI is revolutionising business, enhancing decision-making and automating operations.
Harness the power of large language models like ChatGPT to boost your productivity. Learn to craft effective prompts and interpret nuanced responses.
Explore the societal and ethical dimensions of AI. Develop strategies to use AI effectively, responsibly and fairly.
Course leaders and contributors
Business and technology editors at The Economist will contribute their expertise and insights, focusing on AI’s future impact on business and society.
Articles, videos, podcasts, interactive assignments and discussions with other course participants in forums will enrich participants’ experience of the course. Case studies will examine how businesses are using AI to improve their productivity and performance.
Leading experts will discuss AI’s limitations and how to mitigate the risks to make the most of the technology.
Expert on technology and society; author, broadcaster and course founder
Course advisor and deputy editor
The Economist
Global business and economics correspondent
The Economist
Science and technology correspondent
The Economist
Senior editor, AI Initiatives
The Economist
Americas editor
The Economist
CEO of ORCAA
Researcher in ethical AI
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