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🗓️ 25 July 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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AI researcher Ethan Mollick says most public conversation focuses too much on potential AI catastrophes and not enough on making the technology work for people. Mollick says if we don’t change that, none of us will be prepared for the near future where “everything will change all at once.”
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1:13.7 | Ethan Mollick was named one of Time Magazine's 100 most important people in AI back in 2024. |
1:21.1 | He's advised the White House at Fortune 500 companies. |
1:24.6 | He also teaches at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and is |
1:28.6 | co-director of their generative AI labs. |
1:31.5 | And he's author of Co-intelligence, Living and Working with AI, and he also has a substack. |
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