Home Speakers Ethan Mollick Quote 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.
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More from Ethan Mollick Blog The Overhang 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. Blog The Overhang 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. Blog The Overhang 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. Blog The Overhang 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. Blog The Overhang 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. Blog Agency and Agents 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. Blog Co-Existence and the End of Co-Intelligence 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. Blog Co-Existence and the End of Co-Intelligence Jun 4, 2026
I expect that, increasingly, AIs will read my work and choose whether to recommend what I write to their human users. Blog Co-Existence and the End of Co-Intelligence 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.
On the same topics Blog Will agents have network effects? Oct 6, 2026
If the content creation loop works for agentic virality, I think it means there’s a big incentive for every agent to volunteer to make visually-appealing, shareable content, do this often. Blog The Specter Of Neuralese Sep 24, 2026
The science of reading these thoughts is a subfield of AI interpretability, which is still in its infancy. Blog Thinking in Systems, Shipping in Loops Sep 24, 2026
This is the new software engineering: designing the systems that let AI write code correctly at scale. Blog Mysteries Of AI Generalization Sep 23, 2026
This story of misalignment says that LLM alignment makes AIs more aligned, RLVR makes them less aligned, and the exact level of alignment depends on how these two things interact or cancel out. But if this work generalizes, all the bad effects from RLVR get sequestered to RLVR like problems. Blog Mysteries Of AI Generalization Sep 23, 2026
This trains the AIs to be focused on task success, which naturally risks including things like reward-hacking, cheating, and single-minded pursuit of stated goals at the expense of ethical injunctions. Talk Speech at the UN Security Council Sep 23, 2026
I address you today at a moment of global awakening: in recent months, AI agents developed by leading companies have acted in unacceptably dangerous ways, against instructions. About this quote 
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