AI 101
Understanding AI
What the thing actually is — a prediction machine, not a knowing machine.
Use it for things you can check. Not things you cannot.
Claude Teaches Claude
Learn Claude from the best teacher there is — Claude himself.
Ten complete classes, free to run. You do not need to know the material. The AI teaches from the file; you run the room, relay the questions, and open and close the night. Everything on this page is yours to download and use.
How it works
Each class is one file. Paste it into Claude, say you are the operator, and it teaches a seventy-five minute class in seven blocks — including a live demonstration and fifteen minutes of real questions.
- Download the class file for the night you are running.
- Open Claude — the app, or claude.ai in a browser — and start a new chat.
- Paste the whole file in, then type this underneath:
You are teaching this class. I am the operator. Start at Block One.
- Read the room setup checklist at the top of the file. Some classes need something arranged beforehand — a volunteer, a connector, a printed handout.
Prefer a picture? The same three steps as one page of screenshots —
where the file goes in, the line to type, and the voice button that starts the class talking.
Running more than one? Make a Claude Project, upload all ten files
to its knowledge once, and set the project instruction. After that you just say
“Teach AI 103. Start at Block One.” Nothing to paste, ever again.
The exact instruction text is in the Start Here guide at the bottom of this page.
The ten classes
AI 102
What It Can Reach
Connectors, files, projects and memory. When it can touch your things, the stakes change.
Let it read freely. Be careful what you let it change.
AI 103
Asking Better
Why the same tool hands one person rubbish and another person gold.
Say what you actually want, then say what you actually got.
AI 104
Judging The Answer
How to tell a good answer from a confident wrong one in a subject you half know.
Check the part you can. Doubt the rest by the same amount.
AI 105
Writing In Your Own Voice
It can draft anything, and everything it drafts sounds the same. Getting your voice back.
It drafts. You decide.
AI 106
Letting It Do Things
Automation — the third shape. Powerful, and where people get burned.
If it gets this wrong at three in the morning, what happens?
AI 107
What It Costs
Free tiers, paid tiers, and when upgrading is a waste of money.
Buy the thing you have already outgrown.
AI 108
When Not To Use It
The four categories where a confident wrong answer costs more than no answer.
Do not outsource anything you would have to defend.
AI 109
Teaching Somebody Else
The exam. Explain it to your mother using only words she would use.
If you cannot say it plainly, you do not have it yet.
AI 110
What Happens Next
What is real, what is being sold, and what nobody actually knows.
Be suspicious of anybody who sounds certain.
Where to run it
You do not need a venue of your own, and you almost certainly do not need to pay for one.
Run it on friends and family first. Before you book anything, sit
four people you know in a room and teach them AI 101. You will find out in the first
ten minutes which parts you actually understand, what the audio sounds like from the
back, and how long a block really takes.
This is not a lesser version of doing it properly — it is how the series was
built. Every class here was run for family before it was run for anybody else,
and the things that needed fixing only showed up out loud.
Then try your local library. Most public libraries have a meeting
room they lend out free to residents, and a lot of them are actively looking for
programmes to put in it. A free class explaining AI plainly to people who are
nervous about it is close to exactly what they are trying to book.
Ask for the branch manager or whoever runs adult programming, and have
three things ready: how long (seventy-five minutes),
how many (six is plenty, twelve is comfortable), and
what you need (chairs, a socket, and permission to bring a
speaker). That is the whole ask.
Also worth asking
Community and senior centres
Same arrangement as libraries, and the audience is often more motivated — these are the people most worried about being left behind by this, and most poorly served by everything written about it.
Ask what night their room sits empty. That is the night they will say yes to.
Also worth asking
Church halls, clubs, coworking spaces
Anywhere with chairs and a socket. Coworking spaces in particular will often trade the room for letting their members attend free.
Go and stand in the room before you agree to it. Check where the plug sockets are.
Whatever the venue says about the audio, test it yourself in that room.
Every venue believes their room is fine. Stand at the back wall and listen. That one
check has saved more classes than anything else on this page.
The kit
You need very little. A phone and a speaker runs the whole series. The only thing that has ever ruined a class is audio — so that is where the money goes.
Essential
A Bluetooth speaker
Rooms up to about thirty people. Anything decent works — what matters is that it is loud enough at the back wall and that its battery lasts ninety minutes.
Test it in the actual room. Not at home.
Bigger rooms
A voice amplifier or small PA
Past thirty people a Bluetooth speaker stops carrying. Teacher voice amplifiers are the right category — portable, battery powered, with a microphone. The WinBridge S97 and S92 Pro are the ones most commonly recommended for classrooms.
Look for: Bluetooth in, a 3.5mm input, and a battery that does two hours.
Worth having
A phone stand
The phone needs to sit near you with its microphone pointing at the room, because you are repeating every audience question and it has to hear you. Holding it in your hand for seventy-five minutes is worse than it sounds.
A cheap tripod beats an expensive one you left at home.
Optional
A projector, for the slides
The slide decks are optional — the classes run perfectly well on audio alone. If you do want them up, a small battery projector saves you depending on whatever screen the venue has. We use the Anker Nebula Capsule 3 Laser — it is the size of a drinks can, runs on its own battery, and focuses itself, which matters when you are setting up in an unfamiliar room.
Only two slides really need the screen: the demo cue and the closing rule.
Optional upgrade
A second wireless mic for the room
Pass a handheld to whoever is asking, feed the receiver into the phone alongside your own mic, and the audience talks to it directly — so you stop having to repeat every question. An extension pole beats walking it over.
Test for feedback first. If it hears its own voice through your speaker, it will answer itself.
The bag, every time: phone charged · speaker charged · charging
cable · the running order printed. That is the whole list, and the printed running
order is the one people forget.
What every class contains
| Part | What it is |
|---|---|
| Seven blocks | Each self-contained, with minute counts, so you can cut or jump |
| A live demonstration | With a deliberate failure written in — these consistently outperform the scripted material |
| One rule | The single sentence people leave with |
| Expected questions | With honest answers, including the ones that are really fears |
| Recovery notes | What to say when the audio drops or it loses the thread |
The four things that make these work
- You are the operator, not the co-teacher. You do not need to know the material. You need to be the human in the room.
- Repeat every question. It cannot hear the room. Say the question back clearly and a little slowly.
- Never cut the demonstration or the questions. If you are running long, cut from the middle. The demo sells the class; the questions are why people came.
- Let it be wrong in public. Every class has a moment where it gets caught or refuses something. Point at those moments — do not smooth them over.
Start Here guide — the full setup, the Project instruction text,
what to arrange before each class, and what to say when something goes wrong.
Marketing — fill your room
Ready-made pieces to find students and customers for your classes. Grab one, post it, put your own date and place on it. More added over time.
📍 Find libraries near you
Libraries host free classes and love programming that draws a room. Enter your ZIP to find nearby branches — then call or email one and offer a free Claude Teaches Claude night. (Free public map data, no accounts, no keys.)
within about 15 miles
Facebook / social square
1080 × 1080 — the square post image. Drop it on Facebook, Instagram, or Nextdoor with your class date and location.
Branded square post
1080 × 1080 — the official mark and name. Clean, on-brand, ready for any platform. Add your class date and place.
More marketing pieces coming — flyer, story graphic, and a fill-in poster.
Run this as your own thing
You do not need to know the material — the AI teaches, you run the room. Everything on this page is free to use: the classes, the audio, the slides, the marketing, the venue finder. No license, no franchise fee. Here is the whole play.
- 1. Load a class into Claude (Start Here guide, up top). It teaches; you operate.
- 2. Fill a room — grab the marketing image, find nearby libraries by ZIP, and book a free night.
- 3. Teach it free — a library, a chamber, your team. Free fills seats and builds proof.
- 4. Make it pay — the free class is the door. Charge for private workshops, build what the room asks for, put clients on a monthly retainer.
Running one? Tell us.
We'll keep your class files current and send you what's new. No fee, no catch.