Ethan Mollick

What Ethan Mollick said

1. Silicon Valley Girl · Nov 3, 2026

   Wharton’s Top AI Professor: Stop Starting Software Companies — The Real AI Money Is Here

   3 moments · 14 min

   3:58
   1. 18:24

      AI is breaking the apprenticeship path into expertise

      “your incentives are 100% deliver the best product you can. Who's better than you? Claude or ChatGPT or Gemini.”

   2. 33:10

      Manage agents with feedback and decision points

      “So if I'm specifying things for an agent, I will specify things like here are the points I want you to check in with me on about the work.”

   3. 39:29

      AI fact-checking caught errors in the sources he cited

      “not only did the AI spot errors that I made, but even more often it spotted errors in the stuff I was citing.”

2. Big Technology Podcast · Oct 20, 2026

   This AI Expert Argues We're Underestimating AI's Impact — With Ethan Mollick

   6 moments · 23 min

   3:10
   1. 13:21

      AI gains require companies to redesign how teams work

      Mollick says companies must rethink roles and assemble teams around ambitious projects. One company cut a data migration plan from $200 million to $20 million by revisiting the work.

   2. 50:23

      AI helps students learn when it acts as a tutor ProPro pick

      “If you use AI to short circuit doing work, i.e. cheating”

   3. 41:08

      Personal AI agents trade convenience for data exposure ProPro pick

      “But we are still trusting an LLM with access to your private data that can receive and send messages to the outside world. There is risk in that.”

   4. 7:23

      Large companies report AI returns before full organizational change

      “C-level teams are using this as a super analyst to find problems inside the company they weren't able to identify.”

   5. 23:59

      AI product formats are still in an era of ferment

      “we are what we call in the study of innovation an era of ferment nobody knows the right form for these things to be in”

   6. 31:08

      Mollick sees no clear technical wall to steady AI gains

      “I'm not predicting we go to superintelligence overnight, but I'm saying I don't see any stoppage to steady gains in AI ability.”