What Ethan Mollick thinks about LLMs
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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4 dated positions, 2025 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Ethan Mollick has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsMy point is that, while there is a lot of debate over what future models will do, the current capabilities of existing models are barely being used, and are often not even well understood.
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Their wordsSo change is coming no matter how the frontier is paced. It will not happen all at once and it will be uneven, but it is inevitable.
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Their wordsThe risk of hallucination is why I always recommend using AI for topics you understand until you have a sense for their capabilities and issues.
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Our readingCurrent AI models cannot produce insights beyond human understanding, however impressive they seem
Their wordsYou should remember that the best AIs can perform at the level of a very smart person on some tasks, but current models cannot provide miraculous insights beyond human understanding.