One Useful Thing
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Trying to understand the implications of AI for work, education, and life. By Prof. Ethan Mollick
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The Bitter Lesson versus The Garbage Can
Does process matter? We are about to find out.
Against "Brain Damage"
AI can help, or hurt, our thinking
Using AI Right Now: A Quick Guide
Which AIs to use, and how to use them
The recent history of AI in 32 otters
Three years of progress as shown by marine mammals
Making AI Work: Leadership, Lab, and Crowd
A formula for AI in companies
Personality and Persuasion
Learning from Sycophants
On Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after
New models and new thresholds
No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
When Language Models Learn to See and Create
The Cybernetic Teammate
Having an AI on your team can increase performance, provide expertise, and improve your experience
Speaking things into existence
Expertise in a vibe-filled world of work
A new generation of AIs: Claude 3.7 and Grok 3
Yes, AI suddenly got better... again
The End of Search, The Beginning of Research
The first narrow agents are here
Which AI to Use Now: An Updated Opinionated Guide (Updated Again 2/15)
Picking your general-purpose AI
Prophecies of the Flood
What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
What just happened
A transformative month rewrites the capabilities of AI
15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to
Notes on the Practical Wisdom of AI Use
Getting started with AI: Good enough prompting
Don't make this hard
The Present Future: AI's Impact Long Before Superintelligence
You can start to see the outlines of an AI future, for better and worse
When you give a Claude a mouse
Some quick impressions of an actual agent
Thinking Like an AI
A little intuition can help