🧭 AI and Society: Opportunities, Risks and Change

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how people work, communicate, learn, make decisions and access services. Rapid advances in generative AI are creating new opportunities while intensifying concerns involving employment, misinformation, privacy, security and concentrated technological power.

This free introductory course provides a clear and current overview of the most important ways AI is affecting society. It examines the changing workplace, deepfakes and digital trust, governance and regulation, everyday AI use, global differences in development, and the misconceptions that often distort public understanding.

Rather than concentrating on technical detail, the course presents the wider picture: what is changing, why it matters and how developments across society, business and technology are connected. It also explains how to distinguish meaningful progress from publicity and which signals are worth watching as AI continues to evolve.

The course provides a useful starting point for anyone seeking a balanced understanding of AI without requiring previous technical knowledge. Each major subject can then be explored more deeply through specialist AI Tuition Hub courses covering governance, finance, data security, digital deception, productivity, ethics and individual industries.

By the end of the course, learners will be better equipped to assess AI developments critically, recognise both opportunities and risks, and decide which areas they would like to investigate in greater depth.