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Ethan Mollick

Philadelphia
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Professor @Wharton studying AI. New book, Co-Existence, coming October 20. Preorder here: co-existence.ai/ Substack: www.oneusefulthing.org/
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The Dot and the Swarm

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By Ethan Mollick
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I generally think I have done a good job anticipating the direction and pace of AI over the few years I have been writing this Substack, but I think I recently got something fairly large wrong. In the last year I have been posting about how I suspected that humans would have to approach working with agents as a manager, deciding how to delegate work to agents and specifying how those agents should be organized.
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The Overhang

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By Ethan Mollick
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We are still on an exponential curve of AI development. I try to put out a Substack post every couple weeks or so, yet, as the pace speeds up, that sometimes feels too slow. In the weeks since my last post, we had the apparent cracking of one of the most famous problems in math by an AI (accompanied by controversy) and widespread discussions about the risks posed by AI and what to do about it (also accompanied by controversy).
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Agency and Agents

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By Ethan Mollick
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Agency is the initiative to act. Increasingly, it is going to determine what happens next with AI, and whether that is good or bad for us. But whose agency? Human agency, the willingness to push, experiment and act without waiting for instructions, seems increasingly important to getting value out of AI, and I have a longer post on that coming soon. But this post is about the agency of AI, and how the choices we make about how to use it (or constrain it) will shape all of our futures.
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