Mollick: agent swarms are relentless — one read an entire book line by line
emollick · x · 2026-11-15
Ethan Mollick had Fable 5.2 reconstruct W.H. Auden's 1941 poetry class; the agent found an obscure book on the Internet Archive and read it line by line via repeated full-text searches (since the scan was lending-only). He warns agent-swarm research traffic will be huge and relentless, and better solutions are needed for the commons.
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