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• Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng will launch "AI for Everyone" in 2019, a program that helps nontechnical business leaders and educators increase tech literacy.

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In a move to democratize artificial intelligence (AI), Coursera co-founder and AI expert Andrew Ng announced an "AI for Everyone" program for nontechnical business leaders, coming to the online learning platform in early 2019.

Engineers and data scientists might handle the technical details of AI, but business leaders also need to understand application opportunities for machine learning and deep learning in their organizations, as well as what the technology can't do, Ng wrote in the announcement. The course will help nontechnical leaders build "a sustainable AI strategy" and serve as a resource for technical employees to suggest to managers to promote understanding of the technology.

The course comes a little more than a year after Ng launched an online deep learning course on Coursera with the goal of training millions of new AI experts. Hundreds of thousands of students enrolled since it launched last fall, and Ng and Coursera are working to expand the course with new materials, resources and events, Ng wrote.

Colleges and universities have identified the knowledge gap and are adding an AI focus to the research, instruction and other knowledge-sharing they support.

Read the full article about AI for everyone by Hallie Busta and Alex Hickey at Education Dive