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

We can do this in schools, right?

Because I can say, I'm going to test you without AI at the end of the semester, and 80% of your grade is this test, or this blue book assignment that we do in the room, or the essay you write, or the role-playing exercise we have.

And that will incentivize you to not just use AI for learning, because you're going to need to perform in this test.

We can do the same kind of thing in organizations, but we can't pretend that people can just use AI for everything and still learn all the skills they want to learn without any help from the organization overall.

The bigger question of agency is, I mean, part of the issue is these systems are seductive, right?

So like we found this in education, which is that the AI wants to give you the answer to the problem.

It's a helpful assistant.

And it turns out you don't learn very well when people just give you answers.

So adding friction, I think people are worrying too much about removing friction.

Adding friction at the right points might be really important.

So I think children aren't that motivated to learn.

I mean, you're motivated in the area you're intrinsically care about, right?

So you're a kid who loves math.

You're a kid who loves reading.

I mean, that's always been the easy part, right?

And people always complain, why can't all learning be like the learning I like?

It's like, because not everyone likes everything and intrinsic motivation kind of fails at some point.

So we rely a lot on extrinsic motivation.

You have to take the test.

We think, as a society, you need to learn civics, and you need to learn math, and you need to learn your country's literature, or whatever the outcomes are.

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