Working and learning with generative AI

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About the course

Generative AI is rapidly becoming an expected part of working life. The World Economic Forum's ‘Future of Jobs Report 2025’ finds that by 2030, 39 % of workers' core skills will be obsolete due to AI, and 59 % of the workforce will need retraining to remain competitive.

Working and Learning with Generative AI – a practical mini-course for the workplace is an open course from Chalmers University of Technology for professionals who want to strengthen their AI skills. The course consists of a combination of self-study, live sessions and practical exercises tailored to your profession. You will learn how to use generative AI in a responsible, safe and effective way – with a focus on real-life tasks.

The course will earn you a certificate from Chalmers and provide you with concrete tools that you can apply directly in your work. We encourage work teams or colleagues to take the course together, as this strengthens its integration into the business and facilitates collaboration and effective, positive change.

No programming background is required, only access to ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Perplexity or Gemini.

Please note that this is a course designed to empower participants and provide them with practical knowledge that they can use in their professional lives. The course does not focus on tutorials for each AI model, detailed programming or coding with AI, or how to build and understand machine learning algorithms.

Three specialisations of the course

The course should be of interest for anybody working in an office, but also includes material that is developed especially for the following industries and roles:

For university staff (academia)

Public sector

Business professionals

Key learning outcomes

After the course you will be able to:

Use generative AI safely, securely and effectively.
Identify opportunities and risks in your professional role, such as bias and privacy issues.
Create smart prompts, start using AI agents and customise/tailor a chatbot.
Contribute to change management and understand the human factors in AI adoption.
Plan for continued professional development and contribute to a learning culture around AI.

Certification & compliance

This course is designed to ensure participants satisfy the EU AI Act conditions for responsible AI usage.
Successful participants receive a Chalmers certified digital certificate.

Overview

Workload: about 25 hours (including 10 hours role specific practice)
Format: Self-paced online modules, 6 sessions (one per week) with expert guest lecturers.
Language: English
Prerequisites: No prior knowledge or training required. Premium access to ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Perplexity or Gemini is recommended.
Next start 2026: February 18. First session February 25. Join the course at any time and study self-paced.

Organisation

The course is developed by Chalmers University of Technology by a team that brings competence from human-, society- and technology-oriented fields including pedagogy, complex and sustainability systems, organizational psychology, computer science, and moral philosophy.

Team: Erik Sterner, Karl de Fine Licht, Lucas Gren, Viking Lindberg, Per Berg Thomsen.

Registration and contact

If you have questions, send an email to: higenai.tme@chalmers.se

Use the link below to register for the course. The link will take you to the website EdX. Choose the alternative Audit course to take the course for free.