Source AI is a Prediction Engine. It's not new, and it's not going away. What's left to figure out is when it helps, when it just looks like it's helping, and where your judgment actually starts. This twelve-week elective is built around that distinction. Three modules, of four sessions, built for the creative who wants to stop reacting and start judging.
Part 1 Prediction / Strategy What it means to make decisions in a world where the next word, the next move, and the next quarter are probabilistically guessable. What shifts when prediction gets cheap? What does a human strategist still do better than a model, and where should they stop pretending?
Part 2 Language / Voice Meaning as economic value. If a machine can write the email, what's left of you in it? We'll practice separating what only you can say from what you've been saying out of habit.
Part 3 Automation / Practice The arc moves from thinking to communicating to making. Some of it will feel obvious. Some of it will feel like a correction. All of it is designed to leave you less reactive and more yourself, with better tools and clearer edges around what the tools are for.
Logistics Tuesdays, 6:00–7:30 PM, at Index Space in Greenpoint. Twelve weeks. The second cohort began September 8, 2026, with masterclasses on October 6 and November 3. Cohort capped at 12 people. Enrolled participants have access to the CBS library — a working collection of texts on creativity, technology, and practice — for the duration of the course. $500 per module. Open to the public. Critical Business School participants receive 25% off.
About Critical Business School CBS is a practitioner-led alternative education program based at Index Space in Greenpoint. It runs year-round: weekly core sessions plus rotating electives taught by working practitioners — people teaching from the back of the house, not the front of the classroom. The premise is development, not training. Living ideas, not slides. AI Literacy is one of the electives in the current cycle.
About the Instructor Nitzan Hermon is a coach, writer, and educator, and the founder of Critical Business School. His work sits at the intersection of creative practice and business — helping individuals and organizations articulate what they actually do, what they're actually for, and what to build next. He writes Being in Space , a Substack on creative surplus and the work of integrating it; the AI Literacy series there previews the thinking behind this course. He has spent the last several years translating between technologists and the people who have to live with what they build, and the last several months paying close attention to what AI is actually changing about how creative people work.
The AI Literacy Salons The course sits alongside the AI Literacy Salon series — quarterly evening conversations hosted at Index that bring practitioners, researchers, and creatives into a room to think publicly about what AI is doing to the work.