Theoria (Tier 1)
AI Fundamentals for Civil Society
For Civil Society practitioners who want to engage with AI on their own terms — starting with their own attention, not someone else's tools.
Course Snapshot
This is not a productivity course or a prompt-engineering tutorial. It is a foundational programme for Civil Society practitioners who chose this work because it matters and whose communities need them to navigate AI with genuine judgement. You begin by auditing where your attention actually goes. You build evidence about your own work — where AI helps, where it fails in ways specific to your domain, what oversight actually costs. By the time you reach strategy and coalition-building, you arrive with data, not opinions.
At a glance
Tier / level: Tier 1 — Foundational
: Self-paced online; asynchFormatronous cohort sharing on Circle
Total time: ~25 hours taught content + application work
Audience: Civil Society practitioners — staff, leaders, trustees
Cost: Free during the pilot
Availability: Live now — pilot v0.4a
Accessibility: Self-paced, asynchronous, low-bandwidth
What you’ll develop…
Attention Audit: Map where your focus actually goes. (0b, 1a)
Delegation Threshold: Spot when AI stops helping and creates new burdens on your attention (1c)
Frontier Map: Chart your organisation's AI landscape. (3a)
The Pedagogy of Refusal: Articulating why "no" is a legitimate, data-driven answer. (3c)
Moral Inventory: Name where AI puts pressure on your values. (3z)
Coalition Strategy: Spot unlikely alliances across five rooms. (4c)