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Trusted AI Courses is a United States directory covering 46 occupations. It helps you discover options and trace each one to its official source. It does not replace your state licensing board.
Five kinds of credentials, labeled on every listing.
License or requirement: permission from a government body, or training the law requires. Professional certification: issued by an independent industry body such as SHRM, HIMSS, IAPP or CompTIA, usually proctored, with renewal requirements. Vendor certification: issued by the company whose platform it covers, such as Google, AWS, Microsoft or HubSpot; valuable proof of tool skills, often free, and often expiring yearly. Certificate or badge: shows you finished a course. Training only: learning with no confirmed award. Each career page lists licenses and certifications first.
What you will pay, up front.
Every listing opens with what you will pay. Free means free for the scope described. Free learning does not mean a free exam or a free license. Free trials that turn into a subscription count as paid, and we warn you on the card. Unknown prices stay unknown.
Does it count toward a license?
For hands on jobs such as drone pilots, lineworkers and miners we say whether the course counts toward a license, clinical hours or a legal requirement: yes, partly, no, or depends on your state or employer, with the source. Many online courses are useful learning that does not count toward a license. Check with your state board before paying for a program that promises one.
How employers use it.
When an official source shows a credential in use, we say so: a government rule that names it, a partner program that requires certified staff, or accreditation of the certification program by ANAB under ISO/IEC 17024 or by NCCA. When we have no such source, we give a general guide for that type of credential and label it as general.
How to spot fake AI training.
Search for "AI for" almost any job and you will find dozens of courses from sites that appeared in the last year. Many are produced in bulk, one course per job title. We leave them out. Here is how to recognize them yourself:
- Nobody is named. No company, founder or instructor you can look up, only a support email.
- One course for every job. "AI for chefs", "AI for electricians", "AI for salons" from the same site, often with the same structure.
- Free until the end. The lessons are free, then the certificate costs money, or there is a premium certificate design.
- Pressure tactics. Countdown timers, "price may not last", coupon fields and pop ups when you try to leave.
- Claims without sources. "99% pass rate" or "save 5 hours a week" with no data, and company logos that only mean someone from that company took a course.
- A certificate nobody stands behind. A short quiz and a badge from a printing service, with no industry body, university or tool maker behind it.
Trusted AI Courses lists training only when a real organization stands behind it: the company that makes the tool, an industry association, a university or college, a government program, or an established training company with named instructors.
Required depends on your work and location.
Federal requirements are identified as such. State listings apply only to the named state. "Required in certain circumstances" can depend on duties, setting, employer or location.
Checked at the source, with dates.
Every listing shows the date we checked it against the official page. Listings older than six months are flagged as due for a recheck. Prices, prerequisites and renewal rules change, so confirm with the issuer before paying.
Neutral order. Clear commercial labels.
Options appear by type of credential, then free options, then alphabetically. Commissions and sponsorships cannot change that order. Sponsored training, when enabled, appears separately with an explicit Sponsored training label. Affiliate links, when enabled, say so before you click. How we make money ↗
Proof, not just badges.
Every credential has an Add to LinkedIn button and a ready made post. The post starts with a line for you to replace with something you built or improved, because a certificate shows you learned it and a project shows you can use it. Trusted AI Courses never posts anything for you and does not connect to your accounts.
Privacy and click measurement
There are no lead forms and no phone number fields. The only sign up is the optional Open to Work list, which shares just the name, LinkedIn profile, state and credentials you give it with hirers, never your email. Your plan answers stay in your browser. Outbound clicks emit an event with the option, career, placement and time, and no analytics service is connected. Fonts are requested from Google Fonts; your browser may send standard connection information to that service.