AI literacy and the AI Act — team awareness
A half day to understand AI, its risks and its obligations, and to meet the AI literacy requirement of Article 4 of the AI Act.
- Duration
- 3.5 h
- Level
- Beginner
- Format
- On site · Remote · Blended
- Max. group size
- 12 participants
Overview
The European AI regulation (AI Act) requires organizations that use AI systems to ensure a sufficient level of AI literacy among their staff. This half-day awareness session gives the whole team shared reference points: what an AI system is, its limits, the risks of generative AI and the rules of good use. It is aimed at executives and business teams alike and ends with a concrete action plan for the organization. The AI Act's application timeline is phased and may change (European simplification proposals are under way): the content is updated before each session based on the texts in force.
Who this program is for
- Executive committees and managers
- HR, communication, marketing and business teams using generative AI
- Any organization wishing to train its staff in the responsible use of AI
Prerequisites
- No technical or legal prerequisites
- Use, even occasional, of a generative AI tool recommended
Learning objectives
- Explain in simple terms what an AI system is and its limits
- Recognize the risks: hallucinations, bias, data leaks, dependence
- Understand the outline of the AI Act and the AI literacy obligation
- Apply rules of good use of generative AI day to day
- Identify the first actions to take in your organization
Detailed curriculum
4 modules · 3.5 h
Understanding AI and its limits
- What is an AI system: learning, language models, generative AI
- What AI does well and what it can't do
- Hallucinations, bias and lack of transparency
- Why a convincing answer is not necessarily a correct one
Analyze, as a group, AI answers that contain errors and justify the checks to carry out.
The AI Act and the AI literacy obligation
- Goals and logic of the European AI regulation
- Risk levels: prohibited practices, high risk, transparency, minimal risk
- Who is concerned: providers and deployers
- Article 4: ensuring a sufficient level of AI literacy among staff
- Penalties and liability risk
Using generative AI well day to day
- Personal data, confidential information and trade secrets: what you must never enter
- Work accounts, approved tools and "shadow AI"
- Copyright, generated content and disclosing the use of AI
- Checking, proofreading and taking responsibility for the result
Sort concrete cases into permitted use, use to be regulated or prohibited use, then compare decisions.
Action plan and next steps
- Assessing the needs of each category of staff
- Defining useful additional training
- Appointing a lead and planning the first actions
Tools and technologies
Teaching methods
- Short lectures illustrated with concrete examples
- Demonstrations of real errors and misuse of generative AI
- Interactive quizzes and role-play scenarios
- Group workshop to build the action plan
Assessment
- Placement quiz at the start of the session
- Knowledge-check quiz at the end of the session
- Certificate of attendance (useful to document the AI literacy effort)
Required equipment
- A room with a projector, or a connection to a virtual classroom
- A computer or tablet per participant (optional)
Resources provided
- Presentation deck and best-practices cheat sheet
- Action plan template for AI literacy
- List of official texts and useful resources
Career outcomes
- A shared AI culture across the team
- Cautious reflexes around data and generated content
- A skills development action plan for the organization
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