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Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

The AI End Game: How Work is Changing with Ethan Mollick

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

MS NOW, Chris Hayes

Msnbc, The Chris Hayes Podcast, Government, Politics, Chris Hayes, Why Is This Happening?, Withpod, Versant, Ms Now, News, Society & Culture, Versant Media

4.69.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Ethan Mollick, New York Times bestselling author and professor at Wharton, joins WITHpod to discuss the practical application, adoption, and transformative impact of AI on work.

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0:00.4

There's a lot of people who really just think AI is going to go away.

0:02.9

There's something here that this isn't real.

0:05.4

The systems aren't as good as you say they are.

0:06.9

They make mistakes. This is real. I talk to CEOs all the time. They are getting value out of it. It's funny because they'll say things like, oh, 10 million, 20 million here, nothing significant yet. But like, they're getting value out of these systems. there has not been major layoffs because of AI yet.

0:20.2

I don't think that continues infinitely.

0:21.8

No.

0:22.1

Maybe people get better jobs,

0:23.7

but we need the system. out of these systems. There has not been major layoffs because of AI yet. I don't think that continues infinitely.

0:21.8

No.

0:22.1

Maybe people get better jobs,

0:23.6

but, like,

0:23.9

we need the systems in place

0:25.4

to cushion it,

0:25.9

which we believe this is real.

0:33.2

Hello, and welcome.

0:34.1

Why is this happening with me?

0:35.1

Your host, Chris Hayes.

0:41.6

Yeah. Hello and welcome. Why is this happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes. Well, we're here for another special edition of our AI series with Pod the AI Endgame.

0:47.0

And today I want to sort of focus on neither the best case scenario nor the worst case scenario.

0:52.4

But a trajectory in which these things really are

0:56.0

incredibly powerful and transformational, in which the kind of more maximalist claims of its backers

1:01.6

basically come true short of the end all human life on the planet, which we can sort of put in

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