Ethan Mollick tasks new frontier models with solving the Fermi Paradox
emollick · x · 2026-11-11
Ethan Mollick asked Fable 5.2 and Gemini Carbon to tackle the Fermi Paradox: marshal data, propose hypotheses, pressure-test them against critics, and give likely answers where certainty isn't possible. Neither solved it, but he says both produced interesting reasoning, sharing the full conversations.
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