Ethan Mollick

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673 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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And a lot of these companies are missing that.

The systems are so much more capable of being helpful to us than we're letting them be.

Like we just had this whole conversation about context and yet type something into a window and look up a document.

I mean, they have video capability, they have voice capability, they can create images, they can see images, they can open documents.

they should be working with you on things.

You should be co-controlling your mouse.

You should be thinking about having documents pre-prepared for you that come up.

I mean, I've been doing this kind of thing where I have the AI literally look through my emails and sort of prep me on anything I need to do.

It even writes email drafts, which I've not had the guts to send yet.

So everything you get is still human, at least for now.

But I mean,

This failure of imagination comes in large part from when chatbots were the way forward, and it isn't anymore.

Agents delegate sub-agents to do stuff.

Why isn't all my work being checked?

Why aren't I getting feedback dynamically as I go?

And I think part of the reason why OpenClaw, which took off and probably a lot of people watching this are familiar with,

Part of the reason why I took off was it showed a new mode of AI as personal assistant.

And there was obviously a huge demand for that too.

Just like we saw AI as coding assistant.

We're going to see this in lots of other areas.

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