Using AI to Make Better Decisions

Learn a practical 5-step system for clearer thinking, smarter tradeoffs, and better decisions with AI

What you'll learn
Use a practical 5-step framework to make clearer and more confident decisions using AI as a thinking partner.
Define complex or overwhelming decisions more clearly by identifying the real problem and separating tangled issues.
Identify, prioritize, and compare decision variables using structured techniques such as pairwise comparison and tradeoff analysis.
Use AI prompts to reduce mental clutter, organize thinking, and evaluate realistic options without becoming overwhelmed.
Understand opportunity costs and tradeoffs so you can make more disciplined decisions in real-life situations.
Review past decisions more effectively in order to improve judgment and decision-making over time.

Requirements
No prior AI experience is required. No technical or programming skills are needed. Students should have access to ChatGPT or another AI chatbot. A willingness to think carefully about real-life decisions and tradeoffs will help students get the most from the course. This course is designed for beginners and focuses on practical decision-making rather than technical AI concepts.

Description
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

Using AI to Make Better Decisions

AI tools like ChatGPT can generate endless information — but more information does not always create more clarity.

This course teaches a practical 5-step decision-making system designed to help you think more clearly, reduce overwhelm, compare tradeoffs realistically, and make better personal and professional decisions using AI as a thinking partner.

You will learn how to

- define difficult decisions clearly

- identify important variables and priorities

- compare options using tradeoff thinking

- avoid information overload

- make decisions with greater confidence

- and improve your judgment over time

This is not a technical AI course.

You do not need programming skills or prior AI experience.

Instead, this course focuses on something more important

How to use AI responsibly to support clearer human thinking and better judgment.

Throughout the course, you will work through a complete decision framework covering

- Define the decision

- Identify important variables

- Prioritize what matters most

- Compare options and tradeoffs

- Make the choice

- Review and improve future decisions

You will also receive a complete downloadable Prompt Pack containing all prompts used throughout the course so you can continue applying the system long after the course ends.

This course is ideal for

- professionals facing complex decisions

- lifelong learners

- people overwhelmed by information and competing priorities

- and anyone who wants a calmer, more structured approach to decision-making in the AI era

AI can generate information.

But judgment remains human.

This course will help you build a practical system for navigating decisions with greater clarity and confidence.

Who this course is for
This course is for people who want to make better personal and professional decisions using AI as a thinking partner. It is designed for: beginners who are curious about using AI in practical ways professionals overwhelmed by complex decisions and information overload people making important life, career, financial, retirement, or family decisions lifelong learners who want a more structured way to think through tradeoffs and priorities anyone interested in improving judgment and decision-making in the AI era This course is not focused on programming or technical AI skills. Instead, it focuses on using AI to: clarify decisions organize thinking identify priorities compare options realistically and make more thoughtful choices with greater confidence.