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Detail	Making decisions	Anthropic AI Fluency
Provider	The Open University	Anthropic
Our rating	3.5	4.4
Cost	Free	Free
Time	4 hours	Time not stated
Level	Advanced	Beginner
Credential	statement of participation (free)	certificate of completion (free)
Open to	Worldwide	Worldwide
Free in	Worldwide	Worldwide
Content written for	Any country	Any country
Summary	A short course that looks at how people and groups actually make decisions, comparing the rational economic model with psychological and sociological views. It also covers how people perceive risk and what can be done to improve decision making at work.	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	Reflect on your own approach to making decisions Explain the limits of the purely rational model of choice Use psychological and sociological lenses to understand group decisions Understand how perception of risk shapes decisions Identify practical ways to improve decision quality	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	OpenLearn marks it Level 3: Advanced, drawn from postgraduate study No digital badge and no CPD points for this course Last updated 2019 Sign-up needed only to track progress and get the statement	A final assessment must be completed to receive the certificate. Anthropic does not publish a duration on the course page.
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