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Students and teachers can now try Anthropic's three new free AI courses.
Anthropic also appointed a Higher Education Advisory Board.
The industry at large is investing in making AI accessible to students.
This year's back-to-school season nearly guarantees a new classmate: AI. Some form of the tech is now baked into most products -- it's more ubiquitous than ever. Anthropic's new education initiative seeks to help people, students, and educators embrace it.
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Users can now access three new AI Fluency courses, co-created with educators, that help build "responsible AI skills" for teachers and students, Anthropic announced Thursday. The courses are free to access and available under a Creative Commons license, enabling any institution to adapt them.
This comes at a time when knowing how to use AI is becoming an increasingly in-demand skill. A LinkedIn study showed that employers would prefer to hire people who are comfortable using AI tools rather than someone with more years of relevant experience but less confidence using AI.
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