Ethan Mollick: People can be both worried about AI and excited to use it
emollick · x · 2026-09-05
Ethan Mollick notes that most people he talks to hold contradictory attitudes toward AI—worried about its implications yet eager to use it themselves—and argues that tech Twitter tends to oversimplify how complicated public attitudes toward AI really are.
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