Courses

Each course targets a distinct human capacity that remains beyond the reach of current AI. Taken together, they form a map of what makes human intelligence irreducible.

BotSpeak

Tier 4

Fluency in AI Communication

Fluency in AI communication. How to talk to machines — and know when they're talking past you. Prompt engineering, model limitations, hallucination detection, and the rhetorical gap between human intent and machine output.

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Causal Reasoning

Tier 5

Causal Reasoning and World Modeling

AI finds correlations. Humans build causal models. Counterfactual thinking, interventionist reasoning, and the kind of "why" questions that statistical models cannot answer.

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Ethical Play

Tier 3

Ethical Play and Moral Imagination

Moral reasoning under uncertainty, value pluralism, and the limits of rule-based ethics. Developing the capacity for ethical judgment that cannot be reduced to optimization or alignment.

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AIMagineering

Tier 4

Creative Intelligence

Generative AI produces outputs. Humans produce meaning. Creative process, aesthetic judgment, conceptual blending, and the difference between novelty and genuine originality.

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Embodied Teaching

Tier 2

Embodied Teaching and Mentorship

Teaching is irreducibly human. Presence, improvisation, emotional attunement, and the embodied skills that make mentorship effective — none of which transfer to a language model.

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Conducting AI

Tier 4

Supervisory Intelligence

The five supervisory capacities: plausibility auditing, problem formulation, tool orchestration, interpretive judgment, and executive integration. The course that teaches you to conduct the orchestra, not play every instrument.

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The AI Sherpa

Guide

Experiential Learning Guide

A practitioner's guide for experiential learning. The full 18-chapter arc — from design failure diagnosis through the Sherpa infrastructure to domain field guides for co-op, study abroad, clinical, trades, and corporate early career programs.

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