Ethan Mollick: coordination, not smarter agents, is the missing piece in AI economics
GregCook2011 · x · 2026-10-30
Ethan Mollick highlights research arguing that debates on AI's economic impact miss a key factor: coordination. Organizations are more than the sum of their best performers, so smarter individual agents won't transform the economy on their own — agents that can coordinate with each other might. A useful counterpoint to the individual-productivity framing of AI's impact.
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