Ethan Mollick Uses Opus 5.5 to Trace the Random Contingencies Behind the Accelerating AI Moment
emollick · x · 2026-09-28
Ethan Mollick reflects on how many random contingencies led to the current accelerating AI moment, and had Opus 5.5 produce a video inspired by the classic science show Connections, tracing how a series of initially unrelated ideas converged into the present AI wave.
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