Ethan Mollick
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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KPIs are the biggest enemy at this point.
I think they force you into very bad paths in the experimentation phase.
You can't KPI.
The very nature of saying we need a 10% improvement constrains the kind of use cases that you see.
KPIs are a really dangerous outcome because KPIs are basically tracking past behavior and saying we want more or less of this.
When you have radical breaks, you need some room for radicalness.
It doesn't mean you don't have to get rid of all your KPIs, but there's some room for radicalness.
We know how to do it.
Breakthrough ideas, ways that radically change how we work, those are weirder uses of AI.
And so that's where allowing experimentation failure starts to happen, right?
So I want to see, you know, I want to see a new organizational forum come up with, you know, do this.
I want to see a new product line.
I want to see us reenter a market that we left because we couldn't compete and try and, you know, compete with it.
Like big picture stuff, not small.
Well, we're seeing companies, first of all, I think just if this is the CIO arguing about token spend one way or another without other leadership buying in, you're already kind of in a tough place.
Part of this is actually avoiding some of those problems.
Like, I mean, for a little while, Meta had a token leaderboard about how many tokens you were burning.
That's obviously not the right approach, right?
I mean, you could think about AI expense like organizations.
There's
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