Ethan Mollick: I'm deliberately deskilling myself with AI on tasks I don't need
emollick · x · 2026-09-10
AI researcher Ethan Mollick says he is rapidly 'deskilling' himself with AI on annoying tasks he doesn't want or need to be skilled at — a deliberate inversion of the usual deskilling worry: outsource the skills that don't matter, keep the ones that do.
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