AI training for social innovators - it’s exciting. Can you give us an overview of the Elements of AI for Business learning program and what you hope to achieve?

The Elements of AI for Business learning  program is a four week learning program for groups of ten people, and it’s built from a few building blocks. One is curated chapters and exercises from our award winning elements of course, and then three engaging workshops to explore AI, use cases for work and build a shared understanding.

The combination of both practice and theory - that’s great to hear. Given how present AI is today, in the news and in our feeds, what inspired the development of this learning program?

AI will transform the way we work, the services we use and the services we produce. I think it’s going to be similar to what the Internet has done to the world - so a big impact. It might feel like we’re on the top of that hype train, that it’s already happened or that everyone’s doing it and it’s too late.

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But, we're at the beginning of that wave. So at MinnaLearn, we thought that it'd be really important to start building the fundamental knowledge that AI is not magic and that AI is for everyone. And then to start finding practical applications that provide actual, meaningful value, that's really, really important. What I’m seeing is that because AI is so trendy, there's so many AI services, and sometimes it feels like it's just like a stack you put at the end to say, we use AI this, this is AI. -d and published and shared. So maybe this allows for people to do more work and be more, more, more like let's say you'll just like, reach higher levels, even though they don't have all the resources that a big organization might have.

I hope they’re inspired. I hope they create like they start creating innovations that really make a positive impact. Of course, we all have fears. What might AI do? Well, does it take our jobs? Will we use it as a tool for destruction?

INCO: Looking to the future, is there anything else you’d like to share?

We want to help make AI accessible for all and then empower people to be able to learn and teach is very important in this mission. So I've always been a champion of this idea. But a great way to learn is to teach because you're constantly learning from your students. So I think it's exciting to have this kind of train-the-trainer program where people are both learning and then teaching it forward. And that's a way to spread information around. And I'm really excited to see all the amazing work that the trainers and their students will accomplish on this journey.I know from experience - it takes a lot of work. But I'm always really proud when I see what's accomplished. So that's my message to them. I'm excited to start.