Collaborating with AI is Like Management, Requiring Mass Training
emollick · x · 2026-07-06
UPenn professor Ethan Mollick points out that as collaborating with AI agents increasingly resembles "management," society needs to implement large-scale management training for the AI era. Citing the US WWII "Engineering, Science, and Management War Training" program, he argues that such massive training initiatives were key to post-war prosperity and offer a valuable blueprint for the AI age.
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