By Marni Baker Stein, Chief Content material Officer, Coursera

Generative AI is probably the most sought-after talent on Coursera. Nonetheless, to totally harness its potential and increase nationwide competitiveness, it’s essential that we spend money on AI schooling for the general public sector workforce. 

As we speak, I’m happy to announce AI in National Security: Integrating Artificial Intelligence into Public Sector Missions, a brand new course from the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) designed to slender the digital skills gap within the public sector workforce with AI coaching tailor-made to their job duties. 

The course instructors are specialists in AI safety and deployment and embrace Dr. Eric Schmidt, Former CEO and Chairman of Google; Andrew Ng, Coursera Co-Founder; Ylli Bajraktari, SCSP President; and retired U.S. Air Drive. Lt Gen John (Jack) N.T. Shanahan, Inaugural Director, Division of Protection Joint AI Middle (JAIC). The brand new four-module course goals to offer public sector companies with the data and expertise they should keep on the forefront of AI innovation, drive profitable AI adoption of their every day work, and obtain their objectives. This contains:  

• Introducing federal employees to the geopolitical context, making AI safety and innovation a strategic crucial. 
• Offering federal employees with an summary of key AI instruments, together with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, explaining their functionalities and potential purposes, together with mail and doc technology, knowledge visualization, and writing help.  
• Empowering employees to deploy a comparative evaluation of various AI instruments and fashions, understanding their respective benefits and constraints based on standards, together with output accuracy, knowledge safety, high quality, and mannequin building.  

The Particular Aggressive Research Undertaking (SCSP) is a non-partisan, non-profit initiative looking for to strengthen America’s long-term competitiveness as AI and different rising applied sciences reshape the nation’s safety, financial system, and society. We’re excited to see how public sector employees use this course to harness AI instruments, enhance their work, and drive new improvements. 

Be taught extra about SCSP’s AI in Nationwide Safety: Integrating Synthetic Intelligence into Public Sector Mission course and enroll today.