? If you’re going to read one take on AI, let it be Ethan Mollick’s. The Wharton School professor — who specializes in innovation and entrepreneurship — has written a practical analysis of the short-term effects of AI that Kirkus Reviews describes as “an important road map through the AI labyrinth, written with authority and free of technojargon.”

Not a human, not a machine. The way to approach AI according to Mollick is to treat it not as a person and not as a computer, but as a completely separate being. A helpful one, but one that is likely to revolutionize much of what we’re familiar with in the workplace, in education, and even in our interpersonal relationships.

Disruption begets reorganization, for better or worse. While Mollick believes that, realistically, as AI becomes embedded in the daily workflow, it will help with organizational productivity on a large scale. But he also warns even experienced employees that their skills are likely to be devalued as a result, and warns managers to establish AI in the workplace as a tool, not a crutch.

Mollick uses real-world use cases and foreseeable scenarios to demonstrate the effects we can anticipate, instead of looking too far ahead and risking venturing into what we would consider science fiction. But one thing is true: current iterations of AI are the least sophisticated we’ll ever use.

WHERE TO FIND IT- You can find Co-Intelligence at Diwan, or the ebook on Amazon.

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