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Generative AI: understanding and using AI in your job

Generative AI produces text, images and tables from a written prompt. It does not look anything up in a source of truth: it writes the most likely continuation of what came before, which makes it fast and sometimes wrong. At work, three habits are enough: give it a complete context, never upload data that identifies a person, and reread every output before you sign it with your own name.

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What is this course about?

Understand what a model really does, use it without leaking your data, and check what it produces before you sign it.

This is a core course: the material taught is the same for everyone, only the examples, the tools mentioned and the people you deal with change with your job. It has 7 sections, of which 5 sections are followed by a quiz, and reads in 60-80 min. The legal framework cited is European Union law.

An assistant that speeds everything up, mistakes included

Before a New York court, two lawyers filed a brief citing six court decisions that did not exist. A conversational assistant had produced them, complete with the judges' names and the page numbers. Nobody had checked. The court sanctioned the lawyers. The tool had not lied: it did what it is built to do, produce plausible text. Tomorrow, the same mechanism will produce an equally convincing memo, straight out of your logiciel métier.

Key points

Three questions before you upload anything

Ask yourself these before uploading a document to an assistant, at work or at home, every single time.

  • Is it confidential? Think of données personnelles, and of prices
  • Is it contractual? A client may forbid you from using third-party tools
  • Is it checkable? Would you spot an error in the answer

What you will be able to do

  • Identify what generative AI changes in your work and what it does not change.
  • Explain in three sentences what a language model produces and by what mechanism.
  • Build a complete prompt and follow up usefully when the result is not right.
  • Decide what you entrust to an assistant, to which service and under which contract.
  • Trigger the checking that a model never does on its own, and document the control.
  • Spot the tasks where AI really helps and those where it has no place.
  • Choose three uses and fit them into your week without disrupting anything.

The first 4 slides, free

What you read with no account and no card. Here, the generic version; in the player, the examples take the vocabulary of your job.

Try it, before you even create an account

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Aucun métier retenu : c’est la version générique qui s’affiche.

Version générique
Before a New York court, two lawyers filed a brief citing six court decisions that did not exist. A conversational assistant had produced them, complete with the judges' names and the page numbers. Nobody had checked. The court sanctioned the lawyers. The tool had not lied: it did what it is built to do, produce plausible text. Tomorrow, the same mechanism will produce an equally convincing memo, straight out of your logiciel métier.

Real extract from the free slide “An assistant that speeds everything up, mistakes included” of this course.

  1. FreeSlide 1 of 39 · Why generative AI is coming into your work

    An assistant that speeds everything up, mistakes included

    Before a New York court, two lawyers filed a brief citing six court decisions that did not exist. A conversational assistant had produced them, complete with the judges' names and the page numbers. Nobody had checked. The court sanctioned the lawyers. The tool had not lied: it did what it is built to do, produce plausible text. Tomorrow, the same mechanism will produce an equally convincing memo, straight out of your logiciel métier.

  2. FreeSlide 2 of 39 · Why generative AI is coming into your work

    What you will be able to do by the end

    • Write a prompt that gives a usable result the first time
    • Decide whether données personnelles can go into the assistant
    • Check an output before you sign it with your name
  3. FreeSlide 3 of 39 · Why generative AI is coming into your work

    Three questions before you upload anything

    Ask yourself these before uploading a document to an assistant, at work or at home, every single time.

    • Is it confidential? Think of données personnelles, and of prices
    • Is it contractual? A client may forbid you from using third-party tools
    • Is it checkable? Would you spot an error in the answer
  4. FreeSlide 4 of 39 · Why generative AI is coming into your work

    Where do you stand?

    Three questions to gauge how you actually use it, based on what you write every week to collègues et partenaires, not on textbook cases.

    3 short questions, marked immediately, inside the course.

These 4 slides can be read in the player, with no account and no card.

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Programme

7 sections, 39 slides and 8 quizzes in total. Each content section ends with a quiz that checks it has been learned.

  1. IntroductionGratuit

    Why generative AI is coming into your work

    Identify what generative AI changes in your work and what it does not change.

    • 4 slides
  2. SectionAbonnés

    What a model really does

    Explain in three sentences what a language model produces and by what mechanism.

    • 6 slides
    • Quiz de section : 5 questions
  3. SectionAbonnés

    Write a prompt that works

    Build a complete prompt and follow up usefully when the result is not right.

    • 6 slides
    • Quiz de section : 5 questions
  4. SectionAbonnés

    Your data, and what leaves your premises

    Decide what you entrust to an assistant, to which service and under which contract.

    • 7 slides
    • Quiz de section : 5 questions
  5. SectionAbonnés

    Check before you sign

    Trigger the checking that a model never does on its own, and document the control.

    • 7 slides
    • Quiz de section : 5 questions
  6. SectionAbonnés

    Fit AI into your week

    Spot the tasks where AI really helps and those where it has no place.

    • 6 slides
    • Quiz de section : 5 questions
  7. RécapitulatifAbonnés

    Your action plan

    Choose three uses and fit them into your week without disrupting anything.

    • 3 slides

35 slides sont réservées aux abonnés

Les quatre premières slides de cette formation se lisent sans compte et sans carte bancaire. À partir de la cinquième, l'abonnement à 29,99 € TTC/mois est nécessaire. Le quiz de niveau Découverte, lui, reste gratuit : il mesure votre niveau sans rien vous demander.

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How your level is measured

  • Beginner
    Questions drawn
    10
    Pass mark
    70 %
    Question bank
    ≥ 30
    Time limit
    20 min

    Free, no account and no subscription.

  • Intermediate
    Questions drawn
    12
    Pass mark
    75 %
    Question bank
    ≥ 36
    Time limit
    24 min

    Subscribers only, once the Beginner level is passed.

  • Expert
    Questions drawn
    15
    Pass mark
    80 %
    Question bank
    ≥ 45
    Time limit
    30 min

    Subscribers only, once the Intermediate level is passed.

The level shown for a course is the highest level you have passed, with your best score and its date. Questions are drawn at random on every attempt. Play the Beginner quiz for this course or read how we measure your level.

Which jobs is it for?

Common core: the examples change with your job, what is taught stays the same. It addresses all 45 jobs in the directory. See courses by job.

Frequently asked questions

Do you need to know how to code to use generative AI at work?

No. Everything is done in plain language, by writing what you want to get. The skill that counts is not technical: it consists of describing a need precisely, then rereading what comes out. This course requires no IT knowledge and does not ask you to install any software.

My employer has not given me any tool. What can I do?

Start by asking which tool is authorised and under which contract. Until the answer is in writing, assume that no data from your work should be uploaded to a consumer service. You can, however, train yourself, prepare your prompts and identify the tasks that would save time.

Can what I type be used to train a model?

On a consumer account, it depends on a privacy setting that only you can change, and the default value varies from one service to another. On a business plan, the contract forbids it and the administrator guarantees it for the whole organisation. When in doubt, assume the answer is yes.

How can I tell an answer is wrong when I do not know the subject?

You will not, and that is precisely the risk. The safeguard is never to use an output on a subject that nobody around you masters, and to systematically ask for the source and the date of every figure. An answer without a verifiable source does not get signed.

Will AI eliminate my job?

This course makes no prediction. What can be observed today is a shift: repetitive production tasks leave, time spent reviewing and deciding increases. That shift calls for more experience, not less, because you have to spot a result that is credible but false.

What can I read without a subscription?

The first four slides of every course are available without an account and without a subscription, as is the Beginner level quiz. From the fifth slide onwards, the €29.99/month incl. VAT subscription is required. Creating a free account unlocks no extra slide: it keeps your progress, your job and your results.

How is my level measured?

By three level quizzes: Beginner (10 questions, 70 % to pass), Intermediate (12 questions, 75 %) and Expert (15 questions, 80 %). The level shown is the highest level passed, with the best score obtained and its date.

Who writes and who reviews this course

  • Équipe Skillrung

    Équipe éditoriale de skillrung.com

    L'équipe éditoriale de skillrung rédige les formations à partir des publications des autorités françaises et européennes : ANSSI, CNIL, Cybermalveillance.gouv.fr, Légifrance et EUR-Lex. Chaque affirmation chiffrée est rattachée à sa source primaire, datée et vérifiable depuis la page de la formation. L'équipe ne se substitue pas à un relecteur expert : toute formation destinée à la publication est relue par un professionnel nommé du domaine concerné, dont le nom et la date de relecture figurent sur la fiche de la formation.

Artificial intelligence assisted the drafting and the review. Editorial responsibility for the published text remains human.

Statements with regulatory scope verified on .

Sources

Every figure stated in this course points to a primary source, dated and verifiable.

  1. Règlement (UE) 2024/1689 établissant des règles harmonisées concernant l'intelligence artificielle

    EUR-Lex : Journal officiel de l'Union européenne, published on

  2. Recommandations de sécurité pour un système d'IA générative

    ANSSI, published on

  3. Les fiches pratiques IA

    CNIL, published on

  4. Mata v. Avianca, Inc., opinion and order on sanctions, No. 22-cv-1461 (S.D.N.Y.)

    Justia : US District Court, Southern District of New York, published on

What Skillrung is not

  • Skillrung is not a French training body certified under the Qualiopi scheme.
  • As things stand, our content is not eligible for the French CPF, OPCO, DPC or FAF funding schemes.
  • A Skillrung certificate of completion is not a diploma, not a professional title and not a qualification registered in any national register. It records a result obtained in an unsupervised online assessment, on a given date.
  • Taking a Skillrung course does not make your organisation compliant and does not replace the obligations that fall on your employer or on you.
  • Our content is educational. It is neither legal advice, nor medical advice, nor a security audit.
  • For a self-employed professional or a company, the subscription is a deductible business expense : confirm this with your accountant.

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