Twelve industries, twelve deprecation notices: the pitch for replacing each with AI, written in the confident voice that pitch is sold in, then the audit of what it leaves out — the cost, and the capability that doesn't survive the migration.
What you will do
Each week you get a deprecation notice for one real industry: the pitch for replacing it with AI, written the way that pitch is actually sold, followed by an audit of what the pitch leaves out. You read both halves, then write your own — a Weekly Audit Log entry naming one claim you can check, an original notice for an industry of your choosing, and, at the end of semester, a case defending or blocking a notice you didn't write in front of a review board.
Who it is for
Anyone who expects to be on the receiving end of an AI-replacement pitch at work, rather than writing one — or who wants to be able to tell the difference between a pitch's confident numbers and what they actually support. No AI or ML background is assumed; what's assumed is a willingness to read a persuasive paragraph twice.
How to read this course
Every lecture is written in two registers on purpose. The pitch and migration path are written the way the AI-consultancy pitch they describe was actually sold — confident, and light on cost. The breaking changes section is never written that way: it's the plain, checked half of the page, and it's where the cost the pitch left out actually shows up. If a page reads as overconfident, that's deliberate up to the point "Breaking changes" starts — past that seam, it's meant to read as plain fact-checking. The full version of this is on the policies page.