What Ethan Mollick thinks about AI agents

@ethan-mollick · 10 positions · On ppll ↗

Professor at Wharton studying how people actually use AI, and author of Co-Intelligence. Writes One Useful Thing, where the claims are dated and testable because the thing they describe keeps changing under them.

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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Ethan Mollick has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 23 Jul 2026, 18:05 UTC

   Our readingHigher-priced AI subscription tiers mainly buy more hours of agent usage rather than a smarter underlying model

   Their wordsThe more expensive plans are mostly buying you more hours of AI labor, not smarter AI.

   ↗An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuffoneusefulthing.org

3. 23 Jul 2026, 18:05 UTC

   Our readingMicrosoft Copilot is adequate for office document work but significantly behind in agentic capability

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   Their wordsCopilot, which uses a mix of AI models and is okay for working with office documents but lags badly in terms of its agentic abilities.

   ↗An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuffoneusefulthing.org