Artificial intelligence, no magic
A workshop for secondary schools: understanding how the models we use every day really work
- Duration
- 2 sessions of 2 hours
- Format
- In person at the school, or online
- Venue
- At the school (Trentino and nearby provinces) or by video call
- Dates
- School year 2026/2027: dates agreed with the school
- Cost
- Free
Students use artificial intelligence every day, but almost nobody has ever seen how it works from the inside. This workshop starts there: from an open language model that can be observed, questioned and pushed into difficulty.
Over two sessions the class discovers what really lies behind a generated answer, why a model gets things wrong with such confidence, how to recognise information that needs checking, and what changes when a system has to be reliable in real work, as in the products we build for companies and cooperatives.
The workshop is free: it is part of Analytiko's commitment to schools in its region. It is run by an Analytiko researcher, in the classroom or online, with exercises that require no programming knowledge.
Programme
- First session (2 hours): how a language model "thinks"; live experiments; why it makes things up; the impossible-questions game.
- Second session (2 hours): checking an answer; sources, evidence and uncertainty; a real case from Analytiko's work; what using AI with judgement means.
- Materials: a handout for students and one for teachers, left with the school.
Register →Simple registration, no payment.