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10 quotes from Ethan Mollick

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Date	Quote	Context	Source
Sep 18, 2026	In fact, the new GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1 are already enough for transformative impact in large sections of the economy and they can reliably do weeks worth of human work when properly guided and harnessed.Ethan MollickSep 18, 2026· Post	PostThe Overhang	Source
Sep 18, 2026	Making great things with AI means knowing which AI outputs to keep, which to discard, and which to use as raw material for something the AI would never have generated on its own.Ethan MollickSep 18, 2026· Post	PostThe Overhang	Source
Sep 18, 2026	My point is that, while there is a lot of debate over what future models will do, the current capabilities of existing models are barely being used, and are often not even well understood.Ethan MollickSep 18, 2026· Post	PostThe Overhang	Source
Sep 18, 2026	The capability overhang, the gap between what these models can do and what almost anyone is doing with them, is an opportunity because most people don't bring their own advantages to AI, and those who do get much more out of it.Ethan MollickSep 18, 2026· Post	PostThe Overhang	Source
Sep 18, 2026	You are not trying to compete with AI in producing outputs, that is a losing game. Instead, you want to use your human advantages as basis of working with AI to do things that neither of you could do alone.Ethan MollickSep 18, 2026· Post	PostThe Overhang	Source
Aug 31, 2026	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.Ethan MollickAug 31, 2026· Post	PostAgency and Agents	Source
Aug 31, 2026	But it does show that an agent can take a goal, make a plan, adjust that plan when it runs into trouble, coordinate across time, and involve real people without being asked.Ethan MollickAug 31, 2026· Post	PostAgency and Agents	Source
Jun 4, 2026	Being on that frontier myself, I can tell you that working with AI that is sometimes better than you, and sometimes hilariously worse, is not a problem you solve once. It is a relationship you negotiate, and re-negotiate, as the models get ever better.Ethan MollickJun 4, 2026· Post	PostCo-Existence and the End of Co-Intelligence	Source
Jun 4, 2026	I expect that, increasingly, AIs will read my work and choose whether to recommend what I write to their human users.Ethan MollickJun 4, 2026· Post	PostCo-Existence and the End of Co-Intelligence	Source
Jun 4, 2026	Software development is changing, and what is happening in coding is going to be happening in many fields. There are now important areas of work where AI outperforms humans, and yet, AI is far from perfect.Ethan MollickJun 4, 2026· Post	PostCo-Existence and the End of Co-Intelligence	Source

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