Artificial Intelligence for Teenagers
The first generation of teenagers to grow up with AI as a constant companion before they have fully developed their own judgement.
Most are being left to figure it out alone.
AI4Teens helps students build a confident, critical, and creative relationship with AI - so they can use these tools intelligently, responsibly, and without losing ownership of their own thinking.
Why AI Fluency Matters Now
Teenagers are teaching themselves to use AI for:
• Schoolwork
• Research & Revision
• Personal problem solving & Creative projectsVery few have been shown how these systems really work, where they fit in the wider AI landscape, or how to use them intelligently and responsibly.Schools are still adapting, but teens need that insight now.
Most parents can sense the shift but do not feel equipped to guide it themselves.
Education for young people either focuses on a highly technical coding track or surface-level tool tips that quickly become outdated.AI4Teens was built to fill the gap with a much broader AI view and fluency that combines practical capability, future awareness, critical thinking, ethics, and intelligent use.Exactly the skills that will be required regardless of the direction of future ai tools, job opportunities and career developments.
What Students Learn
BIG PICTURE: AI TECHNIQUES & APPLICATIONS
What AI actually is. Where it is heading, and how it is already reshaping education, work, and everyday life. Take a position on bystander, follower or leader.
THE TOOLKIT: A HUMAN-CENTRED MINDSET
How to use AI tools for research, learning, creativity, organisation, and problem solving without becoming overly dependent on them. The four elements of prompting and taking control of your AI settings.
HARD QUESTIONS: MORALS & ETHICS OF AI
How to question outputs and recognise misinformation and bias. Understand ethical concerns, and maintain independent judgement. Think first, then use ai.
THE FUTURE: A PERSONALIZED AI CAREER COACH
How AI is changing careers, industries, communication, and opportunity. The truth about which human skills will become more valuable in the years ahead. During the course, every student builds their own personalised ai career coach.
Course Details
BUILT FOR THE TEENAGE YEARSAGES 13 TO 19
AI is shaping how teenagers learn, create, communicate and prepare for their future. AI4Teens is designed specifically for these formative teenage years, when young people are developing the judgement, confidence and independence to make their own choices.Bringing 13 to 19-year-olds together creates a richer learning experience. Participants share the same core challenges, while different ages bring different perspectives. Through practical activities, discussion and real-world examples, every teenager is encouraged to think for themselves and build a healthy, capable relationship with AI.
Built for Teenagers
The course is designed specifically for how teenagers learn, communicate, and engage today.
Real World AI Tools
Students explore modern AI systems hands-on while learning where their strengths and limitations lie.
Critical Thinking Focus
A strong emphasis on judgement, independent thinking, ethics, and responsible AI use.
2 x 2 hour sessions
Total of four hours course material spread across two interactive sessions over two weekends on Sunday afternoon
This course is not:
• a coding or computer-science course
• a shortcut for cheating on schoolwork
• a screen-time lecture or a fear campaign
• career predictions or pressure to pick a particular path
Who Leads The Course
Dr. Valerie Weinzierl
brings an unusual combination to a course for teenagers. Her career spans nearly a decade at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, more than ten years in executive education as a Visiting Professor at the University of Geneva, and ongoing work mentoring young talent through highly selective programmes, like RISE, founded by Schmidt Futures and the Rhodes Trust, and The DO School's beVisioneers Fellowship.
The thread running through all of it is the same: helping people make sense of complex, fast-moving change and turn it into clear thinking and sound judgement. Most relevant here, artificial intelligence has become central to her own daily work. Over the past few years she has used these tools closely across her projects and followed the field with real attention, and AI4Teens grew directly out of that practical, ongoing engagement.What shapes AI4Teens, though, is personal. As a parent navigating AI alongside her own children, Valerie has seen how quickly these tools weave into schoolwork, friendships, and creativity, often before anyone has really thought it through. Her question is a simple one: how can young people gain everything AI offers without quietly losing the independent thinking and confidence that will matter most as they grow? This course is her answer.
October 2026
Next Cohort
Running live online across two consecutive Sundays, in a small cohort designed for real interaction and discussion.
AGES 13 TO 19
Sunday 4th October & Sunday 11th October 2026
17:00 - 19:00
Limited to a maximum of 12 students per group.€249 per student.
What Students take home
Takeaways
MY FUTURE, your own AI career coach, built as a standing project they keep using long after the course ends.A family code word against voice-cloning scams, agreed at home the same evening. It protects you, and it protects your family, who are typically targeted most.
TAKEWAYS
Your own AI Code of Conduct, written by you rather than handed to you to sign.One rule you'll still remember on Monday: think first, then use AI.A plan for the first hour if a deepfake of you or a friend ever appears: do not delete it, do not forward it, tell one adult, report it, never pay.