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Session 1 - Responsible AI Professional Course May 22, 2026 2:29 PM (PDT)


Technical Grounding + The Accuracy Problem

This week builds the foundation. The goal is a clear mental model of how AI systems actually work, including why they so often sound more confident than they should. Governing AI responsibly starts with understanding what it actually is.

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Pre-reading

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Artificial Intelligence for Everyone - Tutorial by Andrew Ng: A compressed high-level walkthrough of the fundamentals of AI presented by Andrew Ng. This 60 minute video is a fantastic introduction to AI. We chose this as a minimum baseline knowledge for participants ahead of week 1. No prior coding experience required.

AI For Everyone: The Full 1-Hour Masterclass by Andrew Ng (2026) #ai #shorts #viral #trending

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NIST Generative AI Risk Profile - The current practitioner standard for identifying and managing AI and GenAI-specific risks. We will return to this content throughout the course. For week 1: please skim the overview section, understand what NIST-AIRMF is and read the executive summary.

AI RMF - AIRC

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Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction - A broad overview of AI's history, subfields, and key concepts. Useful as a reference map of the landscape before the course dives deeper and as an insight into the depth of this toopic below the surface.

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How AI systems actually work | Demystifying the technology