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You finished. Welcome to AI literacy.

Thank you for taking Understanding AI. You should now be able to read AI news, talk about AI with colleagues and family, and use AI tools in your own life with a clear, informed view. Five suggestions for what to do next.

1. Pick the next free course

You came in cold. You leave warm. Now would be a good moment to take one of our more specific free courses — depending on what part of AI interests you most.

Most popular next step

Build Your First AI Agent

Build, test, and break your own AI agent in a browser. The natural follow-up if you want to go from understanding to doing.

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If you care about your data

AI Security Foundations

The security frame on AI systems. Useful for anyone whose work touches sensitive information.

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If you work in Europe

The EU AI Act for Non-Lawyers

Plain-language guide to the regulation that shapes how AI is used in the EU. For everyone whose work touches AI in Europe.

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For market and company research

Build a Market Research Bot

Use AI to research companies and markets responsibly. Education-only — not for trading.

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For sport analysts

AI for Sport Analysts

Sport-agnostic course on using AI in performance, tactical, scouting, and broadcast analytics. You bring the sport.

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For deeper readers

Reading an AI Paper Like a Researcher

How working researchers actually read AI papers. The three-pass strategy, the notation, the experiments.

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2. Go deeper — the Integrated AI Program

If this course gave you a taste and you want the full meal, our 180-ECTS Integrated AI Program is the structured path. Four tiers, five specialisation paths, real capstones. It is designed for serious learners who want to work, build, govern, defend, or apply AI at an institutional level.

Tier 1 — the foundation — covers everything in this free course in more depth, plus mathematics, programming, computing essentials, and critical thinking. It is the entry point for the full programme.

The full programme launches with the December 2026 cohort. Path E (Sports) launches in January 2027. Applications are open now. Apply or write to hello@romeoadvancedacademy.com.

3. Build a small daily habit

The single most useful thing you can do this month is use an AI tool every day for one real task. Drafting an email. Summarising an article. Brainstorming. Explaining a concept to yourself. Asking it to help you plan a trip, write a card, debug a thought. The habit teaches you more than any course can — including this one. Twenty minutes a day for thirty days will leave you in a different place from where you are now.

4. Read three things

If you want to keep learning informally, three resources that are accessible, honest, and free.

  • Andrew Ng's The Batch newsletter. A weekly summary of what is happening in AI, written for thoughtful non-specialists.
  • Anthropic's blog at anthropic.com/news, and similarly the OpenAI and Google DeepMind blogs. Read directly from the labs; do not rely only on news coverage.
  • "AI Snake Oil" by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor. A book-length, sceptical-but-fair view of what AI can and cannot do. The corrective to overhyped AI coverage.

5. Tell us what we missed

This is the first version of this course, and AI moves fast — by the time you read this, something in here will already be slightly out of date. Tell us what we got wrong, what we left out, what your friends or family did not get from this course that you wish they had. Email hello@romeoadvancedacademy.com with "Understanding AI feedback" in the subject. We revise.

The December 2026 cohort opens for applications.

If this course was your first step into AI, the Integrated AI Program is the structured path that picks up from here. Tier 1 builds your foundation; the five paths let you specialise.

Apply now