Student Guide to Artificial Intelligence
2026 Student Guide to Artificial Intelligence
Human Wisdom for the
Age of AI:
A Field Guide to
Cultivating Essential Skills
“Human Wisdom for the Age of AI: A Field Guide to Cultivating Essential Skills” helps students develop the human capabilities needed to thrive in a digital world, whether working with AI technologies or thinking independently of those tools. The guide is framed by great thinkers throughout history whose wisdom and insights endure, even as AI rapidly evolves.
- Field guide to cultivating human capabilities
- Download the guide (PDF)
- Take the Human Wisdom Self-Assessment
- Download the teacher’s guide learning modules
- About the 2026 guide
- News release
- Acknowledgments
All materials are provided free and licensed under Creative Commons so educators can use and adapt the work for noncommercial applications.
The Student Guide to Artificial Intelligence Series
Elon University’s Imagining the Digital Future Center and the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) have collaborated to create a publication series to guide students as they learn about and use AI. The first Student Guide to AI was published in August 2024 and the second guide was published in May 2025. The Princeton Review joined as a publishing partner in May 2026 for the third guide. All publications are available for free download and are published under a Creative Commons license, allowing individuals and institutions to excerpt and adapt material from the guides with proper attribution. More than 27,000 copies of the guide PDFs have been downloaded by educators and students at about 4,000 colleges, universities, schools and organizations in 170 countries. More than 100 colleges and universities have received custom editions of the guide to distribute on their campuses.
2025 Student Guide to Artificial Intelligence
A detailed student resource with guidance on developing AI skills, academic integrity, ethics and career preparation.
2024 Student Guide to Artificial Intelligence
An introduction to AI tools from a student perspective, with practical advice on using AI responsibly while in college and preparing for the AI future.
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