Ethan Mollick

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Strange Loop Podcast · Ethan Mollick | The long way is the shortcut: experiments over AI playbooks · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

Nobody knows anything, right?

Like I spend my time talking to the AI labs.

I've like brief famous people.

I talk to CEOs all the time and nobody knows anything.

So you can kind of think about three eras of AI broadly.

We talked about what I'd call the second era.

The first era was machine learning writ large, right?

Everybody was doing data analysis, and you had your beautiful data lakes, and you had your data scientists, and you were doing predictive modeling, and all that's still valuable, but that was sort of what AI meant prior to 2022.

Then we had our chat GPT moment, and the last time we talked, we were still in the era that I will grandiosely call, after my own book title,

co-intelligence, where you'd prompt an AI back and forth to get answers.

And I think we have entered in the last few months, especially what we call the agendic era, where it's less about working back and forth with the AI through a chatbot interface, but more about assigning it to do long running tasks, starting to think about what it means to have organizations built around AI.

And I think that that has been the biggest change.

So I think that there is still a need for people in the loop, and there's lots of really interesting things to talk about, about how we incorporate people into AI.

I think we still have to be centered around people.

But the idea that every interaction is going to be you make your request, the AI tells you something, you do it in the world.

You're like, I don't quite know how to do this.

Can you make it easier for me?

Maybe give me the code for this.

That back and forth that was sort of the driver of like, let's talk to a chatbot, refine this email, do it better, is...

was based on the idea that AI couldn't do anything, right?

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