Mark Haseltine

Kudos to Professor Carlos Rotello at Boston College for his thoughtful breakdown on making his classroom “AI-resistent”. There is no single answer on the “correct” amount of AI in a classroom. Whether or not I agree with his level of engagement with AI, I support his emphasis on process and connection. It’s no surprise that I agreed with Professor Rotello’s emphasis on evaluating the writing process rather than just the outcome. That’s right in line with the solutions we’ve built to increase transparency and integrity. But my biggest takeaway from Professor Rotello was the importance of connection between educator and student, and students with one another. No matter an instructor’s choice on whether or how to use AI, the most critical thing to get right in this current environment is the relationship between students and their instructors. Only with ongoing conversations throughout the learning process, instead of just about the final products, will we protect the skills of critical thinking and problem solving. https://lnkd.in/g_BRdZE8

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Leaders from the Massachusetts AI Coalition are working with their teams to drive impact across the Commonwealth. Here's a quick update for those interested in following along. - Beacon Taskforce: A Founder Starter Pack is being assembled from the feedback of 30+ founders. Consistent themes are present (fast/flexible capital, free work space, GPU credits, connections to founders/operators), making consistent solutions testable. Excited for the first Founder Starter Pack to go live in early H1. - Tavern Taskforce: Tomorrow's event is ON. Excited for Luke Winston-Almanzar, Co-Founder & CEO of Reservoir, Ryan Jacobs, Co-Founder & CEO of Agency Robotics, and Shilpi Gupta, Founder & CEO of her company will be speaking on the "Industrial AI Builders Panel." - Banners Taskforce: Heads down. Cranking away. Working on a launch of our first big initiative on April 1st. Remember folks: The weather in New England is a feature, not a bug. 😉

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My colleague Kathryn Hemsing and I recently shared how we built Sharpen Advantage to bridge the gap: giving students a personalized, responsible AI study companion while empowering faculty with the insights they need to intervene early. Read more about Sharpen's journey from a Study app to an Enterprise Platform here: https://lnkd.in/eXQKGpCE #EdTech #Engineering #ResponsibleAI #SharpenAdvantage #HigherEducation

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The most dangerous phase of technology isn’t when it’s new. It’s when it’s powerful but immature. Anthropic’s CEO just published an essay describing AI as being in its “adolescence.” Not fully formed. Not fully understood. But already capable of real harm. What stood out to me wasn’t the list of risks. It was the framing. Adolescence is the phase where capability outpaces judgment. We see this pattern everywhere: - systems that scale faster than governance - tools that advance faster than norms - decisions that move faster than understanding The problem isn’t intelligence. It’s maturity. When technology moves faster than our ability to design guardrails, we oscillate between two extremes: - blind optimism - reactive fear Neither produces good outcomes. Rules get written too late. Principles get articulated after damage is done. And people confuse control with clarity. The work in moments like this isn’t prediction. It’s design. Designing: - constraints that travel - principles that generalize - accountability that doesn’t rely on perfect foresight We don’t need to know every future risk to do better than we are now. We need to admit when a system has outgrown the frameworks we’re using to manage it. Adolescent systems don’t need panic. They need maturity built into them faster than capability grows. https://lnkd.in/e42tNBNG #AIatWork #leadership #systems #decisionmaking #futureofwork #clarity #productthinking

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