# Ethan Mollick

Markdown copy of https://realalpha.app/people/ethan-mollick/ on Real Alpha, the best minutes from long interviews with the people building AI. Cite and link the page, not this copy.

Real Alpha has cut 9 moments of Ethan Mollick (Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Wharton) talking, from 2 interviews on Silicon Valley Girl and Big Technology Podcast, the latest published Nov 3, 2026.

- Role: Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Wharton

## What Ethan Mollick said

- [AI is breaking the apprenticeship path into expertise](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-is-breaking-the-apprenticeship-path-into-expertise/)
  Silicon Valley Girl · Nov 3, 2026 · 4 min
  > “your incentives are 100% deliver the best product you can. Who's better than you? Claude or ChatGPT or Gemini.” — Ethan Mollick · [20:03](https://realalpha.app/v/sHHYVvG_C4Q/?t=1203)
- [Manage agents with feedback and decision points](https://realalpha.app/s/manage-agents-with-feedback-and-decision-points/)
  Silicon Valley Girl · Nov 3, 2026 · 5 min
  > “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.” — Ethan Mollick · [34:10](https://realalpha.app/v/sHHYVvG_C4Q/?t=2050)
- [AI fact-checking caught errors in the sources he cited](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-fact-checking-caught-errors-in-the-sources-he-cited/)
  Silicon Valley Girl · Nov 3, 2026 · 4 min
  > “not only did the AI spot errors that I made, but even more often it spotted errors in the stuff I was citing.” — Ethan Mollick · [39:58](https://realalpha.app/v/sHHYVvG_C4Q/?t=2398)
- [AI gains require companies to redesign how teams work](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-gains-require-companies-to-redesign-how-teams-work/)
  Big Technology Podcast · Oct 20, 2026 · 3 min
  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.
- [AI helps students learn when it acts as a tutor](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-helps-students-learn-when-it-acts-as-a-tutor/)
  Big Technology Podcast · Oct 20, 2026 · 3 min
  > “If you use AI to short circuit doing work, i.e. cheating” — Ethan Mollick · [50:25](https://realalpha.app/v/Xoj0GGu0-aw/?t=3025)
- [Personal AI agents trade convenience for data exposure](https://realalpha.app/s/personal-ai-agents-trade-convenience-for-data-exposure/)
  Big Technology Podcast · Oct 20, 2026 · 3 min
  > “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.” — Ethan Mollick · [43:52](https://realalpha.app/v/Xoj0GGu0-aw/?t=2632)
- [Large companies report AI returns before full organizational change](https://realalpha.app/s/large-companies-report-ai-returns-before-full-organizational/)
  Big Technology Podcast · Oct 20, 2026 · 5 min
  > “C-level teams are using this as a super analyst to find problems inside the company they weren't able to identify.” — Ethan Mollick · [11:18](https://realalpha.app/v/Xoj0GGu0-aw/?t=678)
- [AI product formats are still in an era of ferment](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-product-formats-are-still-in-an-era-of-ferment/)
  Big Technology Podcast · Oct 20, 2026 · 3 min
  > “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” — Ethan Mollick · [24:57](https://realalpha.app/v/Xoj0GGu0-aw/?t=1497)
- [Mollick sees no clear technical wall to steady AI gains](https://realalpha.app/s/mollick-sees-no-clear-technical-wall-to-steady-ai-gains/)
  Big Technology Podcast · Oct 20, 2026 · 6 min
  > “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.” — Ethan Mollick · [36:22](https://realalpha.app/v/Xoj0GGu0-aw/?t=2182)

## The 2 episodes

- [Wharton’s Top AI Professor: Stop Starting Software Companies — The Real AI Money Is Here](https://realalpha.app/v/sHHYVvG_C4Q/) · Silicon Valley Girl · Nov 3, 2026
- [This AI Expert Argues We're Underestimating AI's Impact — With Ethan Mollick](https://realalpha.app/v/Xoj0GGu0-aw/) · Big Technology Podcast · Oct 20, 2026