Ethan Mollick: x-risk shouldn't be the only AI policy focus — job impacts need prep now
emollick · x · 2026-09-13
- Ethan Mollick acknowledges existential risk is critical but argues it is not the only AI issue requiring policy.
- He worries x-risk will become the sole focus of the debate.
- His core point: models don't need to get better for AI to have wide impacts on jobs & society, so we should already be preparing to encourage good outcomes and mitigate bad ones.
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