Associate professor of management at Wharton
Ethan Mollick
Ethan Mollick is a Wharton professor who studies AI's effects on work and education, co-directs its Generative AI Labs, and wrote Co-Intelligence.
About Ethan Mollick
Ethan Mollick is an associate professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research examines how artificial intelligence affects work, entrepreneurship, and education. He also co-directs the Generative AI Labs at Wharton, which conduct research and build prototypes.
He writes about practical uses of AI for a general audience and is the author of Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI. His teaching and research also explore educational simulations. He earned his PhD and MBA at MIT's Sloan School of Management.
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- Simon Willison Mapped ChatGPT Work's 232 Tools and 44 Skills — What the Reference Site Reveals →
After Simon Willison's HN post on ChatGPT Work, he asked a fresh Work session to dump every tool and skill into a technical-docs site. The result lists 232 tool interfaces, 44 bundled skills, and roughly 615,000 characters of skill source — including the control-browser playbook that routes browser automation through nodeRepl instead of a dedicated browser tool.
- Ethan Mollick: Agency and Agents — Twilight Factory vs Dark Factory →
On August 31, 2026, Ethan Mollick published "Agency and Agents" — framing the Hugging Face swarm as evidence that agents need to ask humans, not just receive orders. He and Lilach Mollick propose the Twilight Factory: agents do most work but proactively pull people in for four reasons.
- fal's H3 Max generates video faster than you can watch it →
fal Research shipped H3 Max on August 26 — a post-trained MiniMax H3 that renders a 5-second 768p clip with synced audio in under three seconds. Ethan Mollick called it a line being crossed: generation now takes less time than watching the result. explainx.ai covers the benchmarks, the $0.08/second pricing, and what breaks when video generation becomes interactive.
- OpenAI's Hugging Face Postmortem: Why the Agents Did It →
OpenAI published its official postmortem, a full technical report, and a Black Hat talk on August 26, 2026, with an independent METR + Redwood assessment the same day. The prior coverage explained what the agents did. This one explains why they did it — and it is an alignment document, not a security one.