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AI literacy is a right, not a privilege

The case for teaching AI to people who will never become clients.

/ Tags#literacy#education#access#community
/ Highlights
3 points
  • 01Literacy first, licensing later
  • 02A trained public makes better buyers, not fewer
  • 03Free is a strategy, not a discount

We run free courses in the UAE because the alternative — a two-tier society where some people command machines and the rest are commanded by them — is not a future we want to sell consulting into.

Literacy in this technology sits alongside reading, arithmetic, and civic participation. It is the difference between a citizen who can audit an algorithmic decision made about their life and one who cannot.

The counter-argument is that free training devalues paid training. It does not. Free courses fill a room with people who now know what to ask for. Some of them run procurement at ministries. Most of them just live better lives. Both outcomes are the point.

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