Free AI Courses

Last updated: 2026-10-09

Self-paced courses for people who want to understand AI without the hype, the jargon, or the pressure. Free, browser-first, no install needed.

11 courses available Free & self-paced No account required

New to AI? Start with AI for Absolute Beginners, then Spot AI Scams and Fake Media. Using it for work: AI at Work, then AI Agents for Everyday Use. For study and privacy: Learn Anything with AI and Private AI on Your Own Computer. Ready for more: Beyond the Prompt, then the specialist courses.

Beginner Prompting Tools Safety
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AI for Absolute Beginners

How chatbots actually build answers, why they make things up and how to check them, how to write clear prompts, what not to share, scams, agents and keeping your own skills. Start here if you are new to AI.

12 lessons About 2 hours Flashcards Final exam + Certificate
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Beginner Safety
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Spot AI Scams and Fake Media

Perfect phishing, voice-clone calls, fake shops and reviews, deepfakes, and a household plan for when something gets through. Short, practical and good to share with family.

8 lessons About 80 min Flashcards Final exam + Certificate
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Beginner Tools Prompting
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AI at Work

Email in your own voice, outline-first reports, meeting notes, spreadsheets and research with ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, plus the policy and checking habits that keep you out of trouble.

10 lessons About 2 hours Linked prompts Final exam + Certificate
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Beginner Automation Safety
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AI Agents for Everyday Use

Choose the right jobs to delegate, brief agents clearly, and keep control with least access, approvals, schedules, budgets and a working off switch. Covers prompt injection in plain English.

8 lessons About 90 min Flashcards Final exam + Certificate
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Beginner Prompting
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Learn Anything with AI

Use ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini as a tutor rather than a crutch: study modes, explain-it-back, quizzes and spacing, skill plans, language practice and checking what you learn.

8 lessons About 90 min Linked prompts Final exam + Certificate
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Beginner Tools Safety
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Private AI on Your Own Computer

Run AI models on your own laptop: what hardware you need, Ollama vs LM Studio vs Jan, choosing a first model, private document chat and the checks that keep local AI local.

8 lessons About 90 min Flashcards Final exam + Certificate
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Intermediate Prompting Automation Tools
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Beyond the Prompt — Making LLMs Work for You

From prompt engineering through RAG, agents, MCP, evals, and multi-agent systems. Practical knowledge for anyone ready to build with LLMs.

17 lessons 2–3 hours Flashcards + Video Final exam + Certificate
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Intermediate Economics Critical thinking
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Post-Labour Economics — Risks, Opportunities & How to Think For Yourself

A 20-lesson course on the economics of automation and the future of work. What changes, what doesn't, who gains, who loses, and how to reason about claims that all sound urgent.

20 lessons 3–4 hours Final exam + Certificate
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Intermediate Business Automation
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AI Agency Foundations — Unit Economics, Selling & Scaling Without Hype

A 22-lesson course on running a small AI agency: unit economics, market choice, service-stack design including platform setup and channel automation, legal & AI risk, sales, retention and exit. No hype, no commercial pitch.

22 lessons 3.5–4.5 hours Final exam + Certificate
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Intermediate SEO Tools
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AI SEO Foundations — Optimising for AI Agents, Generative Search & Answer Engines

A 16-lesson course aligned with Google's May 2026 generative-AI search guide. Covers GEO, AEO, schema, the three ways agents read a website, robots.txt and the llms.txt debate, agent protocols (MCP, AP2, NLWeb, UCP, WebMCP), off-site signals, freshness, measurement, the five-step audit, the first-mover window, and a calibration on Google's official position.

16 lessons 3 hours Final exam + Certificate
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Advanced Automation Tools
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Personal Productivity in the Age of AI — From Time Maps to Self-Improving Systems

A 22-lesson course mixing the productivity literature (Drucker, Newport, Allen, Forte) with the AI toolkit (models, context, skills, hooks, sub-agents, MCP, headless workflows). Beginner to advanced, with the peer-reviewed out-of-the-loop performance problem at its centre.

22 lessons ~4.5 hours Final exam + Certificate
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