AI training for beginners

The government's AI Skills Boost announcement says every adult in the UK is eligible to take free, newly benchmarked courses to gain practical AI skills for work.

The AI Skills Boost explainer names the industry partners delivering courses, including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM and Salesforce, and explains how completions are counted.

Vendor routes include Google's Beginner: Introduction to Generative AI learning path, which covers concepts from large language models to responsible AI principles, the OpenAI Academy with tracks for knowledge workers, and Anthropic's Claude Academy, which includes an AI Fluency foundations course.

Each is free to start. We are not ranking them; pick the one that matches the tool your organisation actually uses.

Free courses are self-paced and individual. Completion varies, and nobody checks that what people learned matches your rules.

In-company sessions put a whole team through the same practice on the same tools, with time to ask questions about their own work.

They also surface the useful by-product: a shared list of approved tasks and known failure points, which managers can maintain.

If staff are already confident, skip ahead to role-based work such as AI training for employees.

predeploy does not issue accredited qualifications, does not promise time savings or exam outcomes, and does not train AI models on your data; the training is for people.

Acas advice on AI at work recommends clear policies, consulting staff and checking outputs; we build those habits but your organisation owns the policy.

We will tell you when a free course is sufficient for your need.

To discuss a session, contact us.

A baseline is useful even if you decide to keep the process manual. Measure the work that matters, then compare quality and review effort as well as time.

Assess the workflow before changing it, or plan business AI training if the gap is how people use existing tools.