About this episode

Ethan Mollick discusses the essential AI skills that are often overlooked and emphasizes the importance of human agency in utilizing AI effectively.

Be honest: AI makes you a little nervous. Maybe you're afraid it'll take your job. Maybe you're overwhelmed by all the advice about prompts and agents and which chatbot to use. Or maybe you're just quietly hoping it'll all slow down. Ethan Mollick says we're underestimating our own agency in the age of AI. Instead of worrying about what AI will do to us, we should focus on what we choose to do with it. Ethan is a Wharton professor, the author of the bestseller Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, and the writer behind “One Useful Thing,” one of the most popular newsletters on AI, work, and education. He's spent twenty years studying how people actually use technology, and he's become the go-to voice for making sense of AI without the hype or the doom. And in his new book, Co-Existence: The Next Phase of AI, he explores what comes next as AI moves from a tool we prompt to a presence we live and work alongside. In this conversation, Ethan shares the practical playbook most of us are missing and makes the case that our experience, taste, and point of view aren't things AI replaces. They're exactly what make us better at using it. In this episode you'll learn: ➡️ Why young…

People in this episode

Host: Simon Sinek

Guest: Ethan Mollick

Topics covered

• AI skills
• agency in AI
• technology use
• education
• work
• self-improvement

Keywords

• AI
• skills
• technology
• education

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Wharton

Books & works: Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, One Useful Thing, Co-Existence: The Next Phase of AI

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