Jun 24, 2026 · 52 min · 11 segments
In this episode of *The Parlor Room Presents: Hello AI*, host and Harvard Business School Online Creative Director Chris Linnane speaks with HBS Professor Jake Cook about how artificial intelligence…
Over the last year, when you're working with students and companies, was there a moment where you paused and thought, "The way these people are approaching AI could be problematic"?
Um, what's the big deal? And this is changing exponentially, and so you can write something off 90 or 180 days ago and say, "Oh, you know, this can't do that," and then it can.
The second piece I've noticed was, you know, with my MBA students, they can take a break between their first and second year.
And I think the anxiety when they get in the classroom and to see that everybody else is fluent and feeling like they're a little bit...
Um, but those students, I noticed, really felt, like, how to prompt, what's it doing, how do I trust, how do I build this kind of sixth sense of when to use it for certain tasks.
They seem to really have a lot of anxiety around that and feel like they were left behind.
Over the last year, when you're working with students and companies, was there a moment where you paused and thought, "The way these people are approaching AI could be problematic"?
Um, what's the big deal? And this is changing exponentially, and so you can write something off 90 or 180 days ago and say, "Oh, you know, this can't do that," and then it can.
The second piece I've noticed was, you know, with my MBA students, they can take a break between their first and second year.
And I think the anxiety when they get in the classroom and to see that everybody else is fluent and feeling like they're a little bit...
Um, but those students, I noticed, really felt, like, how to prompt, what's it doing, how do I trust, how do I build this kind of sixth sense of when to use it for certain tasks.
They seem to really have a lot of anxiety around that and feel like they were left behind.
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