Ethan Mollick pod: experts underrate model progress, overrate AI's economic impact
emollick · x · 2026-10-21
Ethan Mollick joins Derek Thompson's podcast 'YOU'RE NOT AGI-PILLED ENOUGH' for a wide-ranging conversation covering:
- The capability/economy mismatch: experts systematically underrate the pace of model progress while overrating how fast powerful AI will reshape the macroeconomy — an answer that starts with 'O-rings and garbage cans'
- The sociology of AI swarms
- Paradoxes of AI use: 'every technological augmentation is also an amputation,' per McLuhan
- The end of prompting: what happens when personal AI agents anticipate needs so well that humans, once the prompter, become the prompted
- Plus 2027 predictions and more
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