Ethan Mollick

Ethan Mollick is a Wharton professor and the author of One Useful Thing. His practical experiments are useful for understanding how people delegate, supervise and collaborate with general-purpose AI assistants.

Original profile or publication ↗

Biography comes from One Useful Thing and Wharton; portrait comes from the linked public GitHub profile. Checked September 19, 2026.

Referenced in 101

1. Personal assistants 101

   On-boarding your AI intern ↗

   Treat a general AI like a talented but context-poor intern: give goals, examples, constraints and feedback instead of expecting one perfect prompt.

2. Personal assistants 101

   Centaurs and cyborgs on the jagged frontier ↗

   People work with AI either by dividing tasks or intertwining their effort, and both approaches fail when they misjudge the model's jagged capability boundary.

3. Personal assistants 101

   Agency and agents ↗

   Giving models tools and room to plan produces useful initiative but also longer chains of compounding error and harder supervision.

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