Artificial intelligence has quietly changed how people make money online. Not in the “get rich overnight” way—but in a far more powerful way: AI dramatically lowers the effort required to build repeatable income streams. You no longer need a large team, years of experience, or advanced coding skills. With the right approach, AI can help you create assets once and earn from them month after month. Below are 10 realistic, proven ways to use AI tools to generate $500–$1,000 per month in mostly passive income. These methods focus on leverage, not hustle. ————————————————————— 1. Sell AI-Assisted Digital Products That Save Time People don’t pay for creativity—they pay for convenience. AI makes it incredibly fast to create useful digital products like templates, planners, dashboards, and checklists. Examples include Notion dashboards, resume kits, business SOP templates, or project trackers. Once created, these products can be sold repeatedly with no additional work. A single $15 product selling 2–3 times per day can comfortably hit the $500–$1,000 monthly range. ————————————————————— 2. Build a Niche Newsletter Powered by AI Email newsletters are one of the most underrated income streams today. When you focus on a specific niche—such as AI for real estate agents, teachers, or small business owners—you attract highly monetizable audiences. AI helps by researching trends, summarizing tools, and drafting content. Monetization comes from paid subscriptions, sponsorships, or affiliate links. Even a small list of 1,000 engaged readers can generate steady monthly income. ————————————————————— 3. Create a Micro-Course Instead of a Big Course Long courses are hard to finish and hard to sell. Short, focused micro-courses (2–3 hours total) perform far better. AI can help you design the curriculum, write scripts, create slides, and even generate quizzes. Platforms like Udemy and Gumroad handle distribution. A $29 course selling just one copy per day already puts you close to your monthly goal.

In July 2025 I purchased @Vivian Aranha 's Certified Chief AI Officer Program: AI Strategy & Governance. The training remains some of the best I have ever invested in (and something I would 100% recommend), but it also provided a bit of a dilemma; I knew I wanted to go all-in with AI, but I also knew I had a great deal to learn. In addition I had a day job providing marketing services, marketing coaching, consulting and while I enjoyed working with clients, I needed to find a way of combining the skills (marketing) I had mastered over the last 30 years, with this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go all-in with AI. By a great amount of chance and fortune I came across a company called micro1 who were (and still are) looking for subject matter experts to train AI in their relevant areas on behalf of many of the frontier AI labs we talk about and use every day. I became a certified Expert AI Trainer in the area of Marketing and during the first 41 days I made over $10k (video case study to follow in the not-too-distant 😊). micro1 CEO Ali Ansari calls those with domain knowledge and expertise 'Human Data Experts' and over the past few months I have been blazing the HDE trail introducing this new industry (which Ali believes will be a $1 Trillion industry in the not-too-distant future), to others. My belief is everyone here in the School of AI should seriously consider becoming a Human Data Expert, which basically involves signing up on platforms like micro1, and being added to their talent pool. Moving forward I am studying to be an advisor to C-Suite executives, promoting the HDE industry and I seriously want to be part of all the awesomeness Vivian is creating here at School of AI. But bills need to be paid, food needs to be put on the table and lights need to be kept on! Which is where part-time AI training comes in. I've been paid $15.00 / hour and most recently for a gig on behalf of Alignerr powered by Labelbox paid me $300 / hour for 4 hours work.

There's a new frontier lab looking for top-class talent: https://humansand.ai/ If you Google 'Humans&' you'll be able to find a few articles about them, including the New York Times.

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After this overwhelming requests - we will be starting both. why do one when we can do both. We are planning to start 2 new Internship Programs - starting 26th January. If you are interested please select here “Data Scientist” or “Machine Learning” if we get good amount of one or other our team will try to work towards its asap. We will just do the poll. The comments are too much for me to go through. 😂 Ask you friends and colleagues too. We will close this poll 23rd January.