Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn 962: Wharton Prof Ethan Mollick on Why Your AI Strategy Is Already Obsolete
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Jan 30, 2026 
Ethan Mollick, Wharton associate professor who co-directs the Generative AI Lab and wrote Co-Intelligence, explores how AI shifts collaboration and management. He discusses AI acting like teammates, why firms should run internal experiments instead of relying on consultants, frameworks for adoption (leadership, lab, crowd), and using frontier models now to learn and capture hidden productivity gains.
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Four Modes Of Working With AI
- AI now operates in multiple coordination modes: interactive, assigned-task, and autonomous.
- People will choose among doing work alone, partnering with AI, assigning tasks, or letting automation run fully.
Experiment Your Way To AI Advantage
- Experiment with management and organizational practices to capture AI value rather than outsourcing decisions.
- Embed IT and domain experts together to prototype and iterate on AI-driven processes quickly.
Leadership, Lab, And Crowd Framework
- Successful AI adoption needs leadership, a lab, and a crowd working together.
- Leadership sets incentives and vision, the crowd experiments, and the lab refines and ships winning ideas.
