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Ethan Mollick
Ethan Mollick's file: entrepreneurship research, classroom experiments, One Useful Thing, Co-Intelligence, and the professor stress-testing generative AI in ordinary work.
Mollick was an entrepreneurship professor before ChatGPT arrived, then treated generative AI less like a theory topic than a strange new coworker to be experimentally stress-tested. His classes, newsletter, research lab and books became a running practical record of what ordinary knowledge workers could suddenly do.
HOW THE HELL DID ETHAN MOLLICK GET HERE?
Jul 1, 2010
THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESEARCHER ENDS UP AT WHARTON
The University of Pennsylvania appointed Mollick to Wharton's standing faculty as an assistant professor of management effective July 1, 2010.
RECEIPTS: University of Pennsylvaniareported
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.
RECEIPTS: Whartonfirst-party
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.
RECEIPTS: One Useful Thingfirst-party
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.
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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.
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