The best free AI courses and certificates for upskilling in 2026 - and I've tried them all

I've worked with AI for decades and have a master's degree in education. Here are the top free AI courses online that I recommend - and why.
Futurism

Something Wild Happens to ChatGPT’s Responses When You’re Cruel To It

Researchers found that as their prompts for OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o model grew ruder, the outputs became more accurate.

The Bots That Women Use in a World of Unsatisfying Men

Has anyone else lost their want to date real men after using AI?” one Reddit user posted a few months ago. Below came 74 ...

The Hidden AI Cost Few Leaders Track: How Typos Inflate Your LLM Spend

It sounds trivial, almost too silly to be a line item on a CFO’s dashboard. But in a usage-metered world, sloppy typing is a ...
IEEE

Sentiment Analysis Using Machine Learning Techniques for Geopolitical Event Trends

Abstract: Opinion mining using applied NLP techniques helps analyze the views of the public concerning specific topics via both news items and social media. Several machine learning models have been ...
UPI

Analysis: Is Lebanon controlled by 'mini deep states'?

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 24 (UPI) --Once hailed as the "Switzerland of the Middle East," Lebanon has undergone an infernal descent into deeply rooted corruption, financial collapse and state failure, ...
IEEE

Sentiment Analysis in Social Media: A Machine Learning Perspective

Abstract: Social media is always changing. It's key for businesses, researchers, and leaders to know how people feel there. This paper used machine learning to study emotions in what users post, ...