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Critical AI Literacy: When to Use AI and When to Leave It Alone
Dr Sam Illingworth
Full Professor of Critical AI Literacy
Wed, Sep 2, 2026
7:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)
Virtual (Zoom)
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71 students
Go deeper with a course
Critical AI Literacy: When to Use AI and When to Leave It Alone
Dr Sam Illingworth
Full Professor of Critical AI Literacy
What you'll learn
Spot a fabrication before you act on it.
We watch AI invent a fact or a citation, live. You leave able to tell a confident answer from a correct one.
Fact-check any AI answer in two prompts.
Two prompts that make an AI show its sources and own its uncertainty, so you catch the guesswork before it is too late.
Know when to trust AI and when to check.
You leave with the judgement underneath it all: when to use AI, when to verify, and when to leave it alone.
Why this topic matters
AI now drafts the emails, reports and research at work, and it states a wrong fact as confidently as a right one. Most advice teaches you to prompt faster. Almost none teaches you to check what comes back. That check is critical AI literacy: the difference between a tool that saves time and one that costs you a mistake. You leave with two prompts you can use today, and the skill worth building.
You'll learn from
Dr Sam Illingworth
Full Professor of Critical AI Literacy
I am a Professor of Critical AI Literacy and the founder of Slow AI, a newsletter read by more than 19,000 people. I have written for the BBC, The Financial Times, and Scientific American, and I teach people to use AI with judgement: when it helps, and when to leave it alone.
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