Ethan Mollick

THE WHARTON PROF TESTING AI LIKE A STRANGE NEW COWORKER

Mollick is the Wharton professor who treats generative AI less like a theory topic than a strange new coworker to be experimentally stress-tested. His classes, newsletter, research lab, and Co-Intelligence became a running record of what ordinary knowledge workers can suddenly do.

1. 1998

   HE BUILDS A STARTUP BEFORE HE STUDIES STARTUPS

   Mollick helped found eMeta, an early online-payments and subscription company, then carried the experience into graduate work on entrepreneurship before joining Wharton.

   SOURCES: Wharton Magazinereported · MIT Media Labreported

2. Jul 1, 2010

   WHARTON HANDS THE STARTUP MYTHBUSTER A DESK

   The University of Pennsylvania appointed Mollick to Wharton's standing faculty as an assistant professor of management effective July 1, 2010.

   SOURCES: University of Pennsylvaniareported

3. Nov 2022

   CHATGPT ARRIVES AND THE PROFESSOR STARTS EXPERIMENTING

   Mollick became an early intensive user of ChatGPT, bringing generative AI directly into his teaching and documenting what it could and could not do.

   SOURCES: Whartonfirst-party

4. Nov 30, 2022

   ONE USEFUL THING TURNS INTO AN AI FIELD LOG

   As generative AI broke into public view, Mollick was already using One Useful Thing to document what the systems could do and what their rapid improvement might mean for work and education.

   SOURCES: One Useful Thingfirst-party

5. Apr 2, 2024

   THE FIELD NOTES BECOME CO-INTELLIGENCE

   Mollick published Co-Intelligence, arguing for treating AI as a collaborator while learning its capabilities and limits through use.

   SOURCES: One Useful Thingfirst-party

6. Jun 20, 2024

   WHARTON GIVES THE EXPERIMENTS A LAB

   Mollick announced a new Generative AI Lab at Wharton focused on building and testing research-based applications for work and learning.

   SOURCES: One Useful Thingfirst-party