Resources
After the day, start here.
What each page on this site is for, three things worth reading next, and the free tools. Everything else the course points to is at the bottom.
After the day
Practise
Go deeper
Five-minute extensions on your own work: VET in depth, the three cognitive traps, the two-chat workflow, the handover prompt, Write like me.
Exercise 6 in full
Decide like me
Write down how you make one decision, test the rules blind on your own past calls, and keep the call.
What we didn’t cover
Beyond the day
Setting up your assistant once, the jargon, images and video, local models, prompt injection, and the big questions: AGI, energy, deepfakes.
Data, bias and ethics
Responsible use
Australia’s six practices, the privacy rule for automated decisions, a checklist for setting up your accounts safely, the quiet defaults, four dilemmas.
Read next
Three picks, one per angle. All are free.
- Practice. Conversation, Not Delegation, the open book this course comes from. Start with VET your AI and The conversation loop.
- Safety. The International AI Safety Report 2026, led by Yoshua Bengio. The three-page executive summary is enough to start.
- The sceptical view. Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor, AI as Normal Technology (2025): why change may come over decades, not years.
Watch and explore
- Watch. Jeremy Utley, How to Master AI Powered Creativity in Just 13 Minutes (EO, YouTube). Treat AI as a teammate, not a vending machine: let it ask you questions and push back. The same idea as the Questions upgrade and the thinking chat.
- Explore. The course notebook in Google NotebookLM. Ask questions of the course material and get answers grounded in it. Needs a Google account.
The day’s materials
Before the day · The four tools · Exercises · Scenario cards · Decision cards · Your workbook · Starter prompts · Prompt builder · Where’s your edge? quiz · Slides
Downloads: Desk card · Field guide · Starter prompts · Slides · RetailFlow data
Free tools to explore
- The trust tool game: ten scenarios per domain, with an explanation on every card.
- Style Mirror: give it a sample of your writing and it produces a style brief for your custom instructions.
- CiteSight: check references and catch the ones that don’t exist. VET’s “verify” step, for citations.
- Google NotebookLM: ask questions grounded in sources you provide. A good way to feel the difference between source-grounded and general answers.
- Msty Studio: runs AI models on your own laptop, or online models through your own API key. One install, and the free plan covers this course. The plainest way to see a system prompt, and to keep sensitive drafts off the cloud.
- Ollama: the engine many local AI apps run on. Open WebUI and LibreChat are chat interfaces an IT team can host in front of it.
- Google Teachable Machine: train a small image or sound classifier in your browser. Machine learning beyond chat.
- Survival of the Best Fit: a 10-minute game in which an “objective” hiring algorithm amplifies the bias in its data.
Also referenced
- Australian guidance. Guidance for AI Adoption (October 2025): six essential practices and an AI policy template. The OAIC on automated decisions in privacy policies, from 10 December 2026.
- Curtin’s AI Skills Passport, a self-paced AI literacy hub (some pages need a Curtin login): the Passport · AI Toolkit · Three cognitive traps · Ethics, data governance and integrity.
- The masterclasses. The Human Edge and AI in Strategy: Choosing where to invest are Curtin Executive Education’s AI masterclasses; Ethics of artificial intelligence goes deeper on governance and risk. Dates and enrolment: Curtin Executive Education masterclasses.
- More from Michael Borck. bigpicture.borck.dev: a map of Michael’s AI teaching, tools and research at Curtin, including what didn’t work.