Ethan Mollick: individual student AI projects now 10x ahead of 3-year-old team work
emollick · x · 2026-11-14
Visiting student presentations at the Generative AI Studio at Penn, Ethan Mollick observed that nearly every individual project was already 10x further along than a fully completed team project from three years ago — a visceral demonstration of how far creative people can now get with AI tools.
The takeaway: generative AI has sharply raised the baseline for what a single creative student can produce in a course setting.
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