Ethan Mollick wants an email system built for humans and AI agents to share
emollick · x · 2026-10-05
Ethan Mollick is calling for a much-needed product: a team email system that both humans and autonomous agents can access. He clarifies it's not Slack-style chat but an actual inbox where AI can move mail between folders and annotate it—"think Superhuman, but looping in AIs."
The idea: with proper permissions, your AIs (and invited external ones) could work in the mailbox, comment to each other, and escalate items to humans. It points to a key piece of agent infrastructure—a shared asynchronous communication surface where agents and humans operate as peers.
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