Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
AI fundamentals: Unleash your potential
This online course provided an insight into the fundamentals of artificial intelligence: what it is, how it works, what it can do, and how to think critically about its societal impact. The course discussed ways that AI is being deployed across business, healthcare, science, and creative industries. It explored practical and ethical challenges around bias, safety, and sustainability.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Professor Judith Squires
Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost
University of Bristol
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain what AI is and how it works with no maths or coding.
- Critique the capabilities, limitations and applications of AI in different settings.
- Explore how AI is used in everyday life and real-world tasks, and how it can change the way we work.
- Assess the benefits, risks and societal impact of AI, and talk about AI with confidence.
Syllabus
- What is AI? - key concepts, ideas and approaches that define AI, including the relationship with natural intelligence.
- How does AI work? - how the ideas and mechanisms of AI have developed from simple neural networks to more sophisticated modern AI systems.
- What can AI do? - what AI can do across different areas including science, education, healthcare, innovation and law, and some opportunities and challenges that AI brings to these areas, as well as to society as a whole.
- How should we think about AI? - taking a wider perspective on AI and exploring practical and ethical challenges including hype & power, safety & bias, and sustainability.
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Issued on 15th April 2026
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