While "AI" is all the rage in current educational debates, the associated skills are mostly about prompting chat bots and generally becoming a productive user of commercial offerings. This talk will introduce new approaches to educate learners about the algorithms that make up modern AI systems, specifically neural networks, how to build them from scratch using free and open source materials, how to use them to diagnose data sets and enhance your personal projects, and how to form an informed critical and skeptical competence towards them.