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Confronting Impossible Futures
We shouldn't be certain about what is next, but we should plan for it
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Ethan Mollick
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Gradually, then Suddenly: Upon the Threshold
Small improvements can lead to big changes
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Ethan Mollick
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June 2024

Latent Expertise: Everyone is in R&D
Ideas come from the edges, not the center
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Ethan Mollick
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What Apple's AI Tells Us: Experimental Models⁴
Siri versus the machine god?
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Ethan Mollick
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Doing Stuff with AI: Opinionated Midyear Edition
AI systems have gotten more capable and easier to use
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Ethan Mollick
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May 2024

Four Singularities for Research
The rise of AI is creating both crisis and opportunity
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Ethan Mollick
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What OpenAI did
A new model opens up new possibilities
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Ethan Mollick
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Superhuman?
What does it mean for AI to be better than a human? And how can we tell?
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Ethan Mollick
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Freeing the chatbot
Intelligence, of a sort, is going to be all around us
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Ethan Mollick
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April 2024

Innovation through prompting
Democratizing educational technology... and more
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Ethan Mollick
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What just happened, what is happening next
The tasks AI can do well are expanding rapidly
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Ethan Mollick
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March 2024

On the necessity of a sin
Why treating AI like a person is the future
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Ethan Mollick
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