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AI & Generative AI Professional Program
Workflows, review, and limits for using generative AI in real work.
AI & Generative AI Professional Program is the longer AI course. You will design a workflow, set review steps, and decide what must stay human. It builds on basic tool use. The lectures are explicit about mistakes, private data, and work you should not outsource to a model.
Course syllabus
01. The task before any tool
- Name what done looks like
One sentence for the result a person will actually use.
- Who will read it
A teammate, a client, or the public, named before you draft.
- The material you already have
Notes, a client brief, or a file you are allowed to use.
- Decisions a model does not get
Pay, access, hiring, and whether a claim is true stay with a person.
- How long the draft may take
A limit, after which you review or you stop.
- The shape of the output
A list, a paragraph, or an image with a use you already named.
- Where a tool belongs in a task
Drafting, rewriting, or summarizing, and not the final decision.
- Mark the steps on paper
Write the work in order, then mark the single step a model might do.
02. Which step may use a model
- The running example
Turn meeting notes you may share into five bullets for the team.
- Drafting when you already have the facts
The model helps with wording, and the facts come from you.
- Rewriting a draft you wrote
You want it shorter or clearer, and the claims stay yours.
- Summarizing text you may share
The long text is allowed into the tool, and the summary is still checked.
- Do not ask a model to invent the facts
If the source does not say it, the draft must not add it.
- Do not ask a model to judge a person
Hiring, firing, grading, and access are not model steps.
- Do the short step yourself
If you can write the line in a minute, the tool is in the way.
- Name that step in the brief
The line says draft, rewrite, or summarize, and it says nothing else.
03. Briefs you can run again
- A repeatable brief
The source, the shape of the result, and what the draft must not add.
- Put the source in the brief
Paste or attach the material, and do not tell the tool it already knows.
- Say the length and the format
Five bullets, or one paragraph under a limit you set.
- List claims the draft must not make
A short ban list, such as promises you cannot stand behind.
- Include one example you wrote
A sample in the shape you want, so the next draft has a target.
- Save the brief as a file
The next task starts from this text, then you swap the source.
- Change one part at a time
A new source, or a new length, so you can tell which change mattered.
- A colleague could run it
Someone else can follow the file and get a draft in the same shape.
04. What you paste
- Paste only what you may share
If you would not send it to a vendor, it does not go into the tool.
- Remove passwords and keys first
Secrets are not context.
- Remove private names unless you may send them
A customer or a colleague stays out until you know you are allowed.
- Send the pages the task needs
The relevant notes, not an entire archive.
- Label the pasted text as source
Say what it is, so the draft does not treat those lines as new orders.
- Keep your notes apart from someone else's text
You should be able to say which words you are allowed to publish.
- Read the paste before you send it
Once, as if a stranger will see it.
- Leaving it out is a valid step
Some tasks stay on your machine.
05. Private data
- Private data and copyright
Customer records and other people's work need a rule before a tool sees them.
- Use the tool your workplace allows
An approved product, or no product.
- A contract is not a prompt
Ask before you upload clauses, and do not treat them as spare text.
- Health and finance details stay closed
They stay out unless a written policy says otherwise.
- Unreleased plans are still private
A slide that feels ordinary can still be closed.
- Check history and training settings
Know whether the product keeps chats, before you rely on it.
- Deleting a chat is not the same as permission
You needed a reason to paste it in the first place.
- When you are unsure, leave it out
A vaguer brief is safer than a precise leak.
06. Copyright and other people's work
- Other people's work is not free raw material
A book, a photo, or a song you do not own is not yours to upload by default.
- A short quote is not a pasted chapter
Know which of those you are doing, and stop if you cannot tell.
- A study is not a product in someone else's style
Practice for yourself is a different act from work you will sell.
- Logos and characters you do not own
Leave them out of anything you might publish.
- Start from work you made
Your own photo or text can be an input, and you still read the tool's terms.
- Name the person or paper behind a fact
If they supplied it, the final text says so.
- The model does not know your license
Publishing is your decision.
- A refusal ends that attempt
If the tool refuses, you change the task or do the work yourself.
07. Generated images
- State the use before you generate
A private mock, a slide, and a public ad are different decisions.
- Describe the picture in plain words
Subject, setting, and what must not appear.
- A mock is not the file you ship
It can stand in while you decide, and it is not the finished asset.
- Read the words inside the picture
Models misspell, so every drawn word gets a human look.
- Do not generate a real person who did not agree
A colleague or a customer is not a costume.
- A generated image is not automatically yours to sell
The tool's terms still apply, and so do other people's rights.
- Keep the prompt with the file
Later you can say what you asked for and what you changed.
- Replace the mock before you publish
A picture you have rights to, or no picture.
08. Reading the draft
- Read it once without the prompt
As a reader, not as the person who wrote the brief.
- Mark every factual claim
A number, a name, a date, or a cause.
- Drop a claim the source does not support
If you cannot point at the line, the claim does not stay.
- Question words that overclaim
Guaranteed, best, and always need a reason you can point at.
- A dropped condition makes the summary wrong
The limit in the source has to survive into the bullets.
- Check the shape you asked for
Five bullets, or the length, and a miss means you edit or you rerun.
- Label the file as a draft
The name or the heading says it is not final.
- Stop when you are rewriting the whole piece
At that point the tool is costing time.
09. A check a person can fail
- A human check that is specific
Each claim matches a line in the source, or the claim is removed.
- Three items on the list
Facts, names, and anything the text must not promise.
- The checker knows the subject
If you cannot tell a wrong claim, you are not the checker for this piece.
- A second person reads public text
A colleague sees it before it goes out.
- Throwing the draft away counts
Rejection is a finished review.
- Note what you changed
What was wrong, and the line you wrote instead.
- Approve only what you would sign
A quick nod is not a check.
- Skipping the check is the failure
A smooth draft is not a reason to send it.
10. Mistakes and invented facts
- A smooth sentence can be wrong
Fluency is not evidence.
- Open a citation or delete it
If you cannot find the source, the citation does not stay.
- Compare a number to the original
Digit by digit when the figure matters.
- Check that two people were not merged
The source says who did the thing.
- Workplace rules come from the workplace
A model does not invent your policy.
- Read what a drafted apology admits
The confession has to be the thing that actually happened.
- Start over when the premise is wrong
A new brief beats more edits on a false setup.
- Keep one bad draft as a sample
The next check has an example of what to catch.
11. Decisions that stay human
- You send the message
The model may draft it, and you are the one who sends it.
- A signature is a person
A document is signed by someone who can be named.
- A suggested number is not a quote
You set the price, and a draft figure is not an offer.
- A model does not grant access
Adding a person to a system is a human step.
- You still talk to the customer
A reply can be drafted, and the conversation is yours.
- You choose what gets published
Including the choice to publish nothing.
- You own the correction
If the text was wrong, you say so.
- Write the decision in one line
What was decided, and that a person decided it.
12. One workflow from brief to file
- One work workflow, end to end
Brief, an allowed source, a draft, a claim check, an edit, then send or file.
- Write the brief for the meeting notes
Five bullets, no new decisions, and no names that were off the record.
- Run it once
One draft, then you read it, before you stack more versions.
- Trace every bullet to a line
If the notes do not say it, the bullet goes.
- Replace a drifted sentence yourself
The words you will stand behind, in your own phrasing where it drifted.
- File the brief next to the final
Next week's meeting can reuse the shape.
- The step that did not use a tool
You chose which points were worth including.
- Nothing in this workflow ships alone
A person is the last step, every time.
13. When the tool stays closed
- Type the sentence you already know
Writing it is faster and leaves less to check.
- No approved tool means no paste
A secret input stays out.
- High-stakes work stays with a qualified person
Medical, legal, and money movement are not model chores.
- Look up a fact in the primary source
The original beats a paraphrase you cannot verify.
- Stop when the draft starts steering the task
If you keep changing the job to fit the output, close the tool.
- A client's ban is the rule
If they said not to use a tool, you do not.
- No checker means you do not publish
An unchecked draft stays a draft.
- Write down what this team does by hand
A short list in the workflow doc.
14. A record of the work
- Save the brief, the source name, the date, and the final
Enough for someone else to see what happened.
- Leave the private source where it already lived
The record points at it, and does not copy it into a public folder.
- Record which product you used
The name, so the terms can be checked later.
- Mark one file as final
Drafts stay labelled as drafts.
- The checker is a name
A person, not a vague group.
- Keep a later correction beside the original
What went out, and what you changed after.
- A colleague can open the folder
The brief is there without a search through chat history.
- Follow a retention rule when you have one
How long the workplace says to keep this record.
15. Review how you work
- Read last week's briefs
Notice which ones produced a draft you mostly kept.
- Rewrite the sentence that was too vague
One line in the brief, made specific.
- Add the check you skipped
A new line on the list, for the miss you actually made.
- Name a task you will stop sending to a tool
One job that belongs back with a person.
- Explain the workflow to a new colleague
The order, the ban list, and the check.
- Change one thing for next time
A line in the brief, or a line in the checklist.
- Say the boundary in your own words
What the tool may draft, and what you decide.
- A person remains the last step
Nothing goes out on the model's say-so.
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