About the Three Horizons of AI Course
The course is three weekly 2-hour virtual sessions, each designed to explore the potential short-term, mid-term, and long-term futures of AI. By participating in this course you’ll get an overview of the rapidly evolving AI field, hands-on experience with cutting-edge generative AI platforms, and structured methods for forecasting emerging risks and opportunities.
Horizon 1 Session: What we see today
Familiarize yourself with generative AI, interact with today’s cutting-edge AI tools. Understand early adopters, innovators and signals. Create your own AI-driven forecast.
Horizon 2 Session: Envisioning the next 5 years
Identify the risks and opportunities that AI presents to your organization. Anticipate and prepare for mid-term disruptions.
Horizon 3 Session: Imagining the next 10 years and beyond
Push your strategic horizon out to the next decade. IFTF’s Systems Mythology framework builds your long-term insight and helps you assess possible roles, applications and user contexts that AI will serve as it integrates with existing systems. Develop scenarios and applications for possible AI-driven futures.
With this course, you will:
- Gain a foundational understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Learn six practical tried-and-tested forecasting techniques, empowering you to develop your own provocative visions backed by tangible evidence from today
- Explore current and emerging AI applications and use cases to prepare for unexpected possibilities
- Develop high-level assessments of the opportunities and risks that generative AI poses to your organization
- Participate in a guided, hands-on session with generative AI tools, designed to help you understand the medium’s strengths, weaknesses, and unique affordances for foresight and insight
- Be part of collective futures sense-making through group discussions with a globe-spanning group of public and private sector professionals
- Build your own AI-powered chatbot
Who is this course for?
This course is designed for a broad audience including:
- Professionals: Looking to integrate generative AI into work processes or understand its influence on their industries.
- Executives: Aiming to future-proof their organizations to leverage the potential of AI.
- Strategists: Interested in using AI's transformative power to gain a competitive advantage.
- Foresight Professionals: Wanting to deepen their understanding of how AI will shape the next decade.
- Curious Minds: Anyone intrigued by generative AI and its strategic implications, both now and in the future.
No prior AI knowledge is required. All you need is a willingness to explore, use your imagination, and learn.
Don't miss this opportunity to build your own AI literacy!
