Ethan Mollick: skip the nation-of-geniuses wait, fund achievable national AI crash projects now
emollick · x · 2026-11-06
Ethan Mollick argues we should be more ambitious about near-term, achievable national-scale AI projects rather than waiting for "a nation of geniuses in a data center."
He lists data-backed candidates: universal tutoring to support classrooms, healthcare second opinions, and financial literacy/scam avoidance — and criticizes how little effort AI labs and policymakers are putting into such crash projects today.
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