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Detail	Mindware: Critical Thinking	Anthropic AI Fluency
Provider	University of Michigan	Anthropic
Our rating	3.5	4.4
Cost	About A$84 a month	Free
Time	10 hours	Time not stated
Level	Beginner	Beginner
Credential	certificate of completion (paid (Coursera enrolment or Coursera Plus))	certificate of completion (free)
Open to	Worldwide	Worldwide
Free in	Not stated	Worldwide
Content written for	United States	Any country
Summary	Psychologist 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.	Anthropic's flagship tool-neutral course on working well with AI, built with academics from University College Cork and Ringling College. It teaches the 4D Framework (Delegation, Description, Discernment, Diligence) plus a grounding in how generative AI works and effective prompting.
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	Decide which parts of a task to hand to AI and which to keep Write clearer prompts and give AI the context it needs Critically assess AI outputs and iterate on them Use AI ethically and take responsibility for AI-assisted work Explain at a basic level what generative AI is and where it falls short
Things to know	Only the first module is free since Coursera ended audit in August 2025 US-centric examples	A final assessment must be completed to receive the certificate. Anthropic does not publish a duration on the course page.
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