AI Literacy for Advanced Learners
Module 1: Advanced Technical Concepts for Leaders
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Beyond the Black Box: A conceptual deep-dive into the architectures defining modern AI—Transformers, Diffusion Models, and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE). Understanding why these models hallucinate or fail.
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RAG vs. Fine-Tuning vs. Pre-training: A decision-making framework for customizing models. When to inject knowledge via Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) versus expensive model fine-tuning3.
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The "Context Window" Economy: Understanding context limitations, tokenization, and how "long-context" models are changing business document processing.
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From Chatbots to Agents: Moving beyond "chatting" with AI to deploying Autonomous Agents that can plan, reason, browse the web, and execute multi-step workflows without human intervention.
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Multi-Agent Orchestration: Strategies for managing teams of AI agents (e.g., a "Coder" agent talking to a "Reviewer" agent).
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Human-in-the-Loop 2.0: Designing control mechanisms for autonomous systems to prevent "runaway" costs or actions.
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Global Regulatory Divergence: A comparative deep-dive into the EU AI Act (risk-based), US Executive Orders (safety-based), and China’s generative AI measures. How to build a compliant global product.
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IP, Copyright, and Liability: Advanced legal case studies on copyright infringement (e.g., NYT vs. OpenAI) and liability when an AI makes a catastrophic error.
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Sovereign AI: The rising trend of nations and large enterprises building their own "sovereign" models to protect data independence and national security.
Module 4: The Economics of AI & Sustainability
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Unit Economics of LLMs: Understanding token costs, inference costs, and the "API vs. Open Source" cost curve. How to predict the cloud bill of a scaling AI product.
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The Hardware Bottleneck: Understanding the GPU supply chain (NVIDIA, TSMC) and how hardware constraints impact business strategy.
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Green AI: Analyzing the energy consumption and water footprint of large-scale AI training and inference; building sustainability into the AI roadmap.
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Adversarial Attacks: Understanding prompt injection, jailbreaking, and data poisoning. How bad actors can manipulate your internal AI tools.
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Deepfake Defense Grids: Implementing cryptographic watermarking (e.g., C2PA standards) and provenance tracking to authenticate corporate communications.
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The "Dead Internet" Theory: Strategies for marketing and brand reputation in a web increasingly flooded with bot-generated content.
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Post-Labor Workforce Planning: Radical scenarios for workforce evolution—what happens if AI creates software better than humans? Transitioning employees from "doers" to "evaluators."
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Neuromorphic Computing & Quantum AI: A look at the next hardware breakthroughs that could exponentially increase AI power beyond current limits.
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Preparing for AGI (Artificial General Intelligence): developing "break-glass" protocols for scenarios where AI capabilities rapidly exceed human benchmarks in reasoning and innovation.