AI
How to think clearly about AI as a tool for program work: what it can do, what it can't, and where it can quietly cause harm.
Elements of AI
University of Helsinki & MinnaLearn · course
the calmest intro to what ai actually is, no code, no math; enough to hold your own the next time someone asks 'should we be using this?'
AI for Everyone
Andrew Ng, DeepLearning.AI · course
a non-technical tour of what ai can and can't do; watch it before you scope a tool, so no vendor can oversell you.
One Useful Thing
Ethan Mollick · site
the least hyped, most practical writing on actually working with ai day to day; the fastest way to build real instinct for it.
AI Snake Oil
Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor · book
how to tell genuine capability from marketing, so your program spends its budget on the thing that works, not the demo.
Weapons of Math Destruction
Cathy O'Neil · book
how automated systems quietly encode bias at scale; the risk lens for anyone pointing ai at the people they serve.