Co-Intelligence with Ethan Mollick
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In Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, Ethan Mollick explains how to engage with AI as a co-worker, a co-teacher, and a coach. Mollick is a professor of management at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, where he studies and teaches innovation and entrepreneurship. In his new book, he discusses the profound impacts AI will have on business and education, using many examples of AI in action. His book challenges us to utilize AI’s enormous power without losing our human identity, to learn from it without being misled, and to harness its gifts to create a better human future. Together with Martin Reeves, chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, Mollick discusses how to train people to use AI effectively, whether AI will substitute or complement workers, and how businesses can move beyond a short-term efficiency gains perspective to generate value with AI in the long term.  Key topics discussed:  02:27 | The four rules for living with AI 09:04 | Educating people to use AI effectively 10:47 | What experiments reveal about where AI adds (and destroys) value at work 12:45 | Substituting (vs. complementing) workers with AI 14:14 | Generating value with AI in the long-term 17:10 | Bringing about the social change in organizations alongside the tech change 20:48 | AI regulation 27:18 | How AI will transform education Additional inspirations from Ethan Mollick: One Useful Thing (Substack)The Unicorn’s Shadow: Combating the Dangerous Myths That Hold Back Startups, Founders, and Investors (Wharton School Press, 2020)Changing the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business - Co-authored by David Edery (FT Press, 2008) This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy
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