The question everyone asks: do I need an AI literacy certificate? The honest answer is no. But your organisation must be able to show it works on AI literacy. This article explains what article 4 of the EU AI Act actually asks, what a good internal record contains, and when a course with a certificate is the easiest evidence.
Since 2 February 2025, the AI Act (article 4) asks organisations to ensure a sufficient level of AI literacy in everyone who works with AI systems on their behalf. Fitting the context: a marketing team working with a chatbot needs different knowledge than a developer building an AI system.
What it does not say: a mandatory course, a minimum number of hours or a mandatory certificate. The European Commission states it plainly in its AI literacy questions and answers: formal training is not required and neither is a certificate. An internal record suffices.
The Dutch Data Protection Authority uses four steps: take stock, set goals, execute and evaluate. You can take those steps largely yourself, with your own documents. Free, but it is administration someone must do - and keep doing.
A course with progress tracking does that administration automatically. Who started, who completed, what the exam score was, when. Every completion produces a certificate with a unique number and a public verification page, so someone else can check it without asking you anything.
Fair is fair: the certificate is the convenience, not the obligation. You are not buying compliance - you are buying evidence that keeps itself up to date.
With team licences you see progress and completion per employee in a dashboard and receive a monthly report. That report is exactly the record you want to be able to show: who, what, when, with what result. From €30 per employee per year. View the team solution
Want to know what trainings cost first? Read: what does AI literacy training cost?
Eight modules, an exam, and a certificate with a public verification page. For yourself or your whole team.