You & AI for young adults

“Wherever you are with AI—cautious, curious, or deep in the weeds—this series is about getting more value from AI.”

Most education institutions don’t know how to teach AI the way it deserves to be taught. That means AI often becomes a crutch—a way to avoid thinking and creating—instead of a tool to strengthen your learning and amplify your work while preserving your authenticity.

You & AI is designed to change that. This workshop series helps you become one of the top 10% of AI users by transforming how you collaborate with these tools. You’ll build the skills to use AI the way you’ll be expected to in the professional world: wisely, critically, and creatively.

Each session is immediately applicable, and you’ll practice integrating what you learn into projects that matter to you.

The sessions

Each session builds a new dimension of AI fluency, compounding your confidence and capability.

  • We all have friction in our lives, spots where our systems and processes aren’t quite where we want them to be. Learn how to turn ChatGPT into a personalized productivity partner—one that helps you plan, prioritize, and follow through on what matters most. You’ll learn to set up persistent workspaces using Projects to support your real life: planning your week, preparing for interviews, or tracking progress toward long-term goals. Think of it as a mini operating system—one you can train to work the way you do.

    Homework: Set up an AI Project to help you accelerate progress on something that matters to you—academic, personal, or professional.

  • AI isn’t a magic typewriter, but it can be a great collaborator throughout the writing process. We’ll walk through an example of how I collaborated with AI to write a LinkedIn post that got 400,000+ views. Then we’ll walk through a framework for collaborating with AI before discussing the tells of bad LLM writing and how to avoid them.

    Homework: Write or edit a piece using skills learned in this session.

  • We’ll workshop your writing. Then you’ll learn to build custom editors that sound less like an LLM and more like you and coach you in the ways you want to grow as a writer.

    Homework: Build a custom editor.

  • Learn how to turn AI into a lasting thought partner—one that evolves with your goals, adapts to your working style, and builds valuable memories over time. You’ll learn how to use persistent memory to keep projects coherent, sharpen your communication, and save time.

    Homework: Teach AI about your goals, and set up at least one mode that is valuable to you.

  • AI becomes more than a tool—it becomes a mirror for your habits, strengths, and areas of growth, helping you make smarter, more reflective decisions.

    Homework: Complete a structured interview with AI to uncover personal insights that are valuable to you and help you find your path.

  • You probably know that AI can help you understand complex information and make study guides. But that’s just the beginning of how it can support you in mastering skills and material. You’ll learn more advanced tactics for mastery, rooted in cognitive science.

    Homework: Set up an academic assistant to help you achieve a goal.

  • By popular vote, we’ll decide whether to use this time to learn to read academic research with AI or to do analysis with AI.

    In the research session, we’ll work through a real paper together and show how AI can make your time reading more productive.

    In the analytic partner session, we’ll work through real survey data together and show how AI can help you go further in your analysis than you can with just a spreadsheet.

    Homework:

    Research - Read a paper with AI.

    Analysis - Analyze a data set with AI.

  • For your final project, you’ll set a meaningful goal for yourself and devise ways of using AI to help achieve it. You’ll have an opportunity to learn from your peers as you share your final projects with each other.

Logistics

Duration: 8 sessions, 75 minutes each, on Zoom

Style: Small live seminars, designed to be interactive

Price: $1,000

Enroll in an upcoming series

For young adults (roughly 18-22): Tuesdays & Thursdays, July 8th - July 31st, 8:15-9:30pm ET | 5:15-6:30pm PT

Get notified of future opportunities or tell us the dates & times that work better for you!

Your instructor

I’m Sarah Dillard, an entrepreneur and educator.

I first got interested in LLM tools after reading collected pieces about them in the 2020 Best American Science & Nature Writing. This led me to start experimenting before ChatGPT had even launched. When it did, it immediately felt like a game-changer. So much so that I wrote the first education sector op-ed on ChatGPT: “Schools Must Embrace the Looming Disruption of ChatGPT.”

I’m now founding The Rock Creek School, which blends timeless liberal arts ideas with modern tools like AI and data science. I also advise Harvard Business School on the design of their online entrepreneurship program, with a focus on how AI is reshaping what—and how—we teach.

I have an MBA from Harvard Business School & an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School and started my career at Bain & Company. When not collaborating with AI, I enjoy hiking, hosting friends, and hanging out with my nieces (7 & 4).

  • “This course will save you so much time.”

  • "I realized I was using 1% of what ChatGPT has to offer."

  • "This course will permanently deepen and improve your ways of working with AI."

  • "I feel like my mind is expanded every week."

FAQs

  • This training is designed to take people to the top 10% of AI users. Some people start from no/low background & some start from daily use.

  • If you can already do all of these things fluently, you may be looking for something more advanced:

    • Choose the right model (e.g., o3 vs 4o) based on the task

    • Use Projects as lightweight operating systems

    • Manage persistent memory to shape AI interaction

    • Activate hybrid routing to ensure the right tool is used behind the scenes

    If you have questions about fit, please feel free to contact me.

  • You'll need a ChatGPT account to participate. You don't have to pay for ChatGPT to join, but it will be easier to follow along and implement all that you are learning if you do.

    This course will focus on OpenAI's ChatGPT, and I'll be demoing from a paid ChatGPT account ($20-$30/month), which has more powerful features than free accounts.

  • If you add your email address here, I'll notify you when we open future trainings.

  • I'll send you a recording of the training for personal use that is good for seven days for personal use.

  • Unfortunately, once you're registered, we aren't able to offer refunds but can issue a credit that you can use to enroll in a future course.