Associate professor of management at Wharton
Ethan Mollick
Ethan Mollick is a Wharton professor who studies AI's effects on work and education, co-directs its Generative AI Labs, and wrote Co-Intelligence.
About Ethan Mollick
Ethan Mollick is an associate professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research examines how artificial intelligence affects work, entrepreneurship, and education. He also co-directs the Generative AI Labs at Wharton, which conduct research and build prototypes.
He writes about practical uses of AI for a general audience and is the author of Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI. His teaching and research also explore educational simulations. He earned his PhD and MBA at MIT's Sloan School of Management.
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OpenAI appointed Paul Christiano to the Foundation Board and Safety and Security Committee on September 9, 2026. In a 1.3M-view personal statement on X and Substack, Christiano said rapid capability acceleration could cause irreversible loss of control in the very near term — citing automated AI R&D, RL reward hacking seen in recent incidents, and Jakub Pachocki's RSI concerns. He estimates 4% all-things-considered risk over one year and 15% over three years.
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- Does Insulting Your AI Agent Change Its Output? What Research Shows →
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- How to Make Stop-Motion Animation With GPT-Image 2.5 →
A 10-second insect stop-motion clip made entirely from GPT-Image 2.5 frames, stitched together, went viral days after OpenAI's Images 2.5 launch. It wasn't Sora — it was a still-image model generating individual animation frames that finally hold together. Here's the actual workflow.
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