Ethan Mollick's Recent LinkedIn Posts

LinkedIn should let us all mute the following phrases, which indicate terribly prompted AI posts: "doing the heavy lifting" "the real question is" "here's the thing nobody is talking about" "that's the real story" "what most people miss" "this is where it gets interesting" "its not about ___, its about __" I have n…

I cannot emphasize enough how much GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1 are already enough for transformative impact in large sections of the economy. They can reliably do weeks worth of human work when properly guided & harnessed. Those effects will not be all at once and be uneven, but the fact that change will occur is ine…

I think that if companies are not failing at all with their AI efforts it is a sign that they are not being ambitious enough. This is a fundamentally new technology that we do not know how to use fully. Achieving breakthroughs will require experimentation, which also requires failure. The whole reason for the J-cur…

LinkedIn should let us all mute the following phrases, which indicate terribly prompted AI posts: "doing the heavy lifting" "the real question is" "here's the thing nobody is talking about" "that's the real story" "what most people miss" "this is where it gets interesting" "its not about ___, its about __" I have n…

I think about this prediction that was made a month ago from the head of product at X/Twitter. Then I look at the meaning-shaped attention vampire comments written by AI under all of my posts. There is a good chance that all public forums are going to be overrun. I am lucky, I have a big audience I cultivated over…

I think that if companies are not failing at all with their AI efforts it is a sign that they are not being ambitious enough. This is a fundamentally new technology that we do not know how to use fully. Achieving breakthroughs will require experimentation, which also requires failure. The whole reason for the J-cur…