Ethan Mollick: AI can align flaws in complex systems, forcing a new defense philosophy
emollick · x · 2026-09-02
Ethan Mollick recommends three pre-AI pages on complex systems and draws a key insight:
- Complex systems run broken but survive because flaws rarely line up, leaving humans a window to intervene
- AI changes that: it can find — or create — aligned flaws
- We need a new philosophy of system defense that uses AI itself
Related event: Ethan Mollick: AI Agents Can Align Hidden System Flaws Without Hackers(2 posts)→
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