Mollick: a small group predicted today's AI landscape with striking accuracy a decade ago
emollick · x · 2026-10-27
Ethan Mollick notes that while today's AI developments seem to have come out of nowhere, a small group of people predicted them with remarkable accuracy a decade ago — as Kevin Roose documents in The AGI Chronicles. Many of those predictors are now very rich and/or powerful.
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