Answers to the questions learners and institutions ask most often about the School of Artificial Intelligence. If your question is not covered, the School’s scope and position are set out on the about the School page.
Is this a degree program?
No. The School offers non-degree professional-learning courses and certificates. Completion confers no academic credit, SKS, ECTS, or a formal university degree, and the School is not a government-accredited institution.
A certificate records the pathway completed, learning hours, a certificate number, and a verification URL so that anyone relying on it can confirm it independently. The credential framework is set out under professional programs.
Do I need a technical background?
No. Foundation study assumes no programming knowledge and no mathematics. The School teaches the judgment required to use AI competently, not the engineering of models.
If you can read critically and are willing to verify things, you have the prerequisites. Advanced pathways state their own requirements on each subject page.
Will I learn to build AI systems?
No. This is not a computer-science department and it does not train model developers or engineers. Programming is not taught as a primary subject.
What is taught is how these systems behave, where they fail, how to design workflows around them, how to verify their output, and how to govern their use. Applied experimentation and development sit with the KBA13 AI Laboratory rather than with this School.
What is the School’s actual position on AI?
That AI is genuinely useful for a defined class of tasks and structurally unreliable for another, and that the difference matters more than either enthusiasm or scepticism.
AI is effective at summarizing, translating, restructuring, organizing evidence, generating options for evaluation, and drafting that a human will rewrite. It is unreliable at anything requiring factual accuracy without verification, because it produces specific, plausible, confidently stated claims that are false. That is a property of how the systems work, not a temporary defect, and no amount of prompting removes it.
The operating rule taught throughout is that AI may accelerate work and never substitutes for human judgment, verification, or accountability.
Does AI mark my work or issue my certificate?
No. All programs require human academic review. No assessment outcome, certificate, or published analysis is generated automatically, and this is a permanent structural requirement rather than a transitional safeguard.
Can I use AI in my assessed work?
Yes, and you are expected to. Assessment is applied: you use AI on a genuine professional task, then document what the tool contributed, what you verified, what you rejected, and why.
Marking weighs verification and judgment above the polish of the output. A submission that documents rejecting AI output for sound reasons scores well. A fluent submission whose claims were never checked does not, because polished unverified output is precisely the failure the School exists to prevent.
What is the course format?
Knowledge-first. Written explanation, worked examples, exercises on real tasks, and assessed applied work carry the learning. Video, where present, is supplementary and no subject depends on it.
How much does it cost?
Pricing is pending owner approval. Some resources may be free, and institutional programs are quoted individually.
Where a subject or pathway is not yet open for enrollment, that status is published rather than concealed, and instructor assignment is confirmed before a pathway opens.
Which program should I take?
Start from your work rather than from the list.
Take foundations first unless you already understand why these systems fabricate. Then take the route matching your context: research method, teaching and assessment, public policy, or organizational adoption. These are set out under academic programs.
If you want a documented credential, read the seven certificate tracks under professional programs and work backwards to subjects. If you are a senior leader who needs framing and decision capability rather than operational technique, the executive programs are shorter and more appropriate. Individual subjects are listed in the course catalog.
What tools will I have access to?
Six tools are provided and taught: a prompt library, a workflow framework, an AI tutor, a research assistant, a writing assistant, and a translator. Each is described with its limits under AI tools.
Access is accompanied by instruction, because tool access without instruction produces confident misuse. Every tool operates under the same rule: output is a draft to be verified, never a finding to be trusted.
Can my organization run a private cohort?
Yes. Cohorts are delivered privately for universities, government agencies, companies, and other institutions, which allows assessed work to address the organization’s own processes and pending decisions.
Enquiries go through the proposal request process. Implementation support beyond training is delivered by KBA13 Consulting.
Does the School teach that everything should be automated?
No, and this is worth stating explicitly. A recurring outcome of the executive and strategy programs is a defensible decision not to automate a particular function.
Teaching that outcome as legitimate is deliberate. The alternative produces leaders who feel obliged to approve something, and organizations that automate processes they have never documented, which reliably produces faster inefficiency.
Will my certificate be recognized?
That depends on the employer or institution, and the School makes no claim otherwise. What it provides is a verifiable record: the pathway completed, learning hours, a certificate number, a verification URL, and an explicit statement that the credential is non-degree professional learning.
Recognition of professional certificates varies by sector and country. Anyone relying on the credential for a formal purpose should confirm acceptance with the receiving institution first.
How does this School relate to the rest of KBA13?
This School teaches and assesses. The AI Laboratory handles applied experimentation and development. KBA13 Consulting delivers institutional implementation. The Research Center and KBA13 Publishing handle research output. AI-assisted analytical work is taught jointly with the School of Intelligence & Strategic Studies.