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DetailMindware: Critical ThinkingAI Capabilities and Limitations
ProviderUniversity of MichiganAnthropic
Our rating3.54.1
CostAbout A$84 a monthFree
Time10 hoursTime not stated
LevelBeginnerBeginner
Credentialcertificate of completion (paid (Coursera enrolment or Coursera Plus))No credential
Open toWorldwideWorldwide
Free inNot statedWorldwide
Content written forUnited StatesAny country
SummaryPsychologist Richard Nisbett teaches the everyday statistics, logic and awareness of bias needed to think clearly about evidence. Well suited to judging AI outputs, data claims and business decisions with a sceptical eye.An introductory course that explains why generative AI behaves the way it does, as a companion to the AI Fluency framework. It covers next token prediction, knowledge, working memory and steerability, with hands-on try-it activities, so learners can diagnose odd outputs and fix them.
Objectives
  • Apply sound decision methods to work and life choices
  • Recognise common cognitive biases and reasoning errors
  • Judge probability and risk more accurately
  • Tell correlation from causation and read experiments properly
  • Use logic and dialectical reasoning to weigh arguments
  • Build a working mental model of how generative AI produces answers
  • Recognise which kind of problem sits behind an unexpected AI output
  • Judge where a task sits between what AI does well and where it struggles
  • Apply a targeted fix rather than simply retrying
Things to know
  • Only the first module is free since Coursera ended audit in August 2025
  • US-centric examples
  • The course page lists a quiz but does not explicitly list a certificate lesson.
  • Anthropic does not publish a duration on the course page.
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