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Who are the programs for?

For small and medium businesses

You may be exploring how AI could support your work, or trying to decide whether it belongs in your business at all. We offer practical guidance to help you identify useful applications, maintain the quality and credibility of your work when your team uses AI, and identify the information security implications for your organizations when your people use AI.

Even if you do not include AI extensively into your business, you still need enough understanding to make informed choices, take advantage of possibilities, and protect yourself from possible harms.

For communities

You may be curious about what AI can do for you specifically, or you may be concerned about how it is being used, or simply looking for a structured place to begin learning about it. Lumiaire Labs programs help you explore this in concrete ways that make sense in your context.

Programs are offered directly to the public, as well as through workplaces, or in partnership with community centres, libraries and local organizations.

Learning programs

Find a path that fits your needs.

Start at any point, or string different programs
together. Work with your preferred AI tool.

Getting Started with AI

Take this program if you:

  • have never used AI intentionally
  • don’t know where or how to use AI practically in your work or personal life
  • are worried about using AI for any reason
  • want to use AI but don’t know where to start
Prerequisites
None
Tool Access
A free account with an AI tool of your choice: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Copilot
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AI for everyday work

Take this program if you:

  • have “chatted” with AI before but want to use it for concrete, practical tasks
  • use AI for simple work or personal tasks but want to improve the outputs you get
  • want to discover practical uses for AI that you may not have considered
  • want to make sure you are using the right AI tools for your tasks
Prerequisites
Some familiarity with prompting is preferable but not necessary.
Tool Access
A free account with an AI tool of your choice: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Copilot
Access to a paid account is beneficial.
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Leveling Up with AI

This program is offered at multiple levels of increasing complexity. Each level can be customized for specific groups and needs.

Take this program if you:

  • are comfortable using AI for basic tasks, get good results, and want to take on more complex work
  • want to build simple agents and organize your AI work more effectively
  • want to build apps, sites, and other interactive elements using AI
  • want to optimize what you spend on AI tools
  • work with AI across teams, not just individually
  • use enterprise AI tools
  • manage teams of people who use AI
  • want to develop guidance and policies for AI use in your business or team
Prerequisites
Ability to use AI reliably to support your personal or professional work. Familiarity with at least one AI tool.
Tool Access
A paid subscription to an AI tool
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Using AI safely and responsibly

Elements of safe and responsible AI use are incorporated into all programs. This specialized program is for those who want to go deeper.

Take this program if you:

  • are concerned about safety and privacy when using AI tools
  • want concrete strategies to protect your work and identity when using AI tools
  • want to understand the implications of AI use for your intellectual property, others’ intellectual property, and fair use
  • want to understand the common legal implications of using AI outputs
  • want to understand how safety and responsibility considerations vary across text, images, multimedia, apps, data, websites, and other outputs
Prerequisites
None
Tool Access
None. Access to a free or paid account is useful.
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Protecting your credibility when using AI

Mindless use of AI can erode your credibility among your peers. It can also make work feel like a mass of similar-looking mediocrity. How do you go beyond that?

Take this program if you:

  • want concrete, practical ways to avoid AI-generated errors
  • want to use AI without creating “AI slop”
  • want to preserve your own writing or creative style
  • want to know what questions to ask when you receive AI-supported work from others
  • want to avoid cognitive offloading—the point at which outsourcing too much of your thinking to AI makes you less capable of thinking for yourself
Prerequisites
Some familiarity with using AI for everyday tasks
Tool Access
None. Access to a free or paid account is useful.
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