InnovateUS launches Responsible AI for Public Professionals: Using Generative AI at Work

InnovateUS launches the "Responsible AI for Public Professionals" course, enabling public sector employees to use generative AI responsibly. This free, self-paced course covers drafting documents, analyzing data, brainstorming, and communication.

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Imagine a world where AI is your trusted assistant, helping you serve the public more effectively and efficiently.  With generative AI, that world is becoming a reality. Like the Internet before it, AI is one of the most transformative technologies of our lifetime. At the same time, it’s important to know the limitations of what this technology can and can’t do.

Responsible AI for Public Professions: Using Generative AI at Work is a free, at-your-own-pace course created by InnovateUS. The course is specifically designed by public sector professionals for public sector professionals.

Through hands-on demonstrations with a wide variety of the latest GenAI platforms, you will learn how you can responsibly use GenAI to:  

  • ✍️Draft and edit better documents, emails, and reports 

  • 📚Analyze large amounts of information and quickly extract key insights

  • 💡Brainstorm to push your thinking in novel directions

  • Communicate more effectively with residents and stakeholders

  • And more!

 

The course is broken down into seven bite-sized sections, so you can learn at your own pace, whether you're at work or home. In just two hours, you'll come away with practical know-how for

 

  • 🤔Understanding what Generative AI is and what it can and cannot do

  • 🧰Identifying practical applications for your daily tasks. 

  • ✅Mastering best practices for using Generative AI effectively and responsibly. 

  • 🔐Overcoming potential risks like bias and hallucinations. 

  • 🏛️Exploring the broader societal implications- risks and benefits- of this emerging technology. 

 

When public servants work differently, they are able to serve their residents better. This is why we are keen for you to learn more about generative AI and how you can use it. Informed by a multi-month engagement process with 100+ AI leaders, experts universally agreed that training on the responsible use of AI to better serve constituents is important and urgent and should be widely available. 

 

Structured for busy professionals at any skill level, this at-your-own-pace course offers flexible learning with closed captioning for all videos, downloadable transcripts for your convenience, interactive exercises, worksheets for further practice, and resources for further learning.  In just a few hours you can be on your way to using GenAI efficiently and responsibly!

 

To sign up and begin your journey, visit course.innovate-us.org

 

While anyone can access our courses and content free of charge on our website, best practices show that hosting the course on an organization’s website/systems leads to the best results. If you are interested in a customized offering of any of our courses to your organization or team, please reach out to [email protected].

 

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