A hands-on AI workshop for beginners. Bring your phone, ask anything, and learn to check AI. Reserve free, pay £9.99 on the night.

Everyone's talking about AI. Finally, somewhere trustworthy you can ask.

You may already ask AI something every day. What's missing is a circle you can trust: people to ask, swap ideas with and build connections with.

What can it really do for you? What saves you time, what saves you money, and what's just hype? Every Wednesday in Plymouth, with an AI expert from Oxford's Human-Algorithm Interaction Lab. Start from zero, or from wherever you are. No experience needed: just bring your phone. Free AI tools only.

WHO COMES: one room, four reasons to be there

Create: create with AI, teach it, grow your business.

Live better: save time, save money on the letters, forms, plans and budgets that eat your evenings.

Stay informed: what's real, what's hype and what's changing, from a source you can trust.

Younger generation: know what they're using, what's safe, and what's ahead for them.

A NORMAL WEDNESDAY: learn by doing it, and from each other

No lectures. Every Wednesday you use AI on real jobs, try it on something of your own, and swap what worked with the people around you. Every workshop follows the same loop, so you can start any week.

A quick read: four short readings, about ten minutes, in your learning passport.

Do it together: your tutor walks the room through one real case, and you try it there and then.

Do it yourself: use it on something real from your own week. Your tutor checks it and stamps your passport.

Swap ideas: a few people show what they made, where AI got it wrong and how they fixed it. Then everyone trades tips, prompts and questions.

Four things, every workshop: what AI is, how to use it, how to direct and check it, and how to know the risks.

YOUR FIRST EVENING

Arrive from 6:15pm. Find a seat and say hello. We help you get a free AI tool working on your phone, step by step. You try it on something real from your week and see where it gets things wrong. You learn what's safe to share, and what you should never type in. Then you tell us one thing you'd like help with; next week's practice comes from the room.

You go home with AI set up on your own phone, one real thing done with it, a way to check what it tells you, and your first stamp in your learning passport.

YOUR TUTOR

Yiju Jia, founder of Super Individuals CIC and former Industrial Co-Director of the Human-Algorithm Interaction Lab at Oxford Saïd Business School. Before that, 14 years in news and technology, including five years as a researcher at the German press agency dpa, where checking facts and sources was the job. "I'll keep the jargon out, and I'll never ask you to put personal details into AI."

PRICES

Your first workshop: £9.99. Reserve your place here for free, then pay on the night by card or cash, or online at ai.sicic.org.

Single workshop: £19.99.

Member: £24.99 a month. Every Wednesday in the room, every lesson online, your learning passport, and your CPD certificate when you finish the 40 hours. Cancel any time.

Concession member: £19.99 a month, for students; people aged 60 or over or retired; people getting Universal Credit, Pension Credit or other means-tested benefits; people looking for work; disabled people and carers; armed forces veterans and their families; and refugees and people seeking asylum. You don't need to send proof.

LEARNING PASSPORT

Every workshop you come to, or complete online, earns a stamp in your learning passport. Fill all 20 and you get your AI Foundations: Using AI Safely and Effectively certificate, accredited for 40 CPD hours.

ABOUT US

Super Individuals CIC is a community interest company: we have no shareholders, so any surplus goes back into our work in the community. SICIC is a member organisation of The CPD Certification Service (membership no. 22924). More at ai.sicic.org

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