# AI Literacy Is Not Automation Literacy
Source: https://humanspark.ai/frameworks/ai-literacy-is-not-automation-literacy/

*AI literacy is working well with an AI. Automation literacy is turning work you understand into a repeatable system.*

**When to use:** When someone asks whether they need to learn to code, whether they need to hire a programmer, or whether their question is an AI question or an automation question.

> AI literacy covers context, prompting, uncertainty, privacy and checking the answer. Automation literacy covers triggers, inputs, rules, exceptions, permissions, tests and ownership.

> An automation may use AI or not. AI can also help you build one, even when the finished automation does not use AI.

> People who ask "do I need to learn to code?" usually have the first skill and are missing the second. The answer is maybe a little, depending on how far you want to go, and the skill to learn first is the second one.