CO-INTELLIGENCE


Ethan Mollick (2024). Cointelligence: Living and Working with AI.


Mollick has an MBA and PhD from MIT, is professor of management at University of Pennsylvania, and is co-director of the Wharton Geerative AI lab at Univ. of Penn.

As a professor, Mollick cites plenty of research while providing at times lengthy personal examples of how he uses AI (artifical intelligence...at the time of this writing, mostly Chat GPT 4.0) in teaching, research, and writing.

Thematically, Mollick advocates using AI as a co-creator, a partner, a source of co-intelligence to enhance/improve the quality of what we do (he claims an increase of 20-80% productiviety when using AI) while placing human value and judgment as the final step in the process to check the AI for "hallucinations, lies," and questionable ethics. 

The future challenge we as humans face is aligning our human values (like survival) with a superintelligent AI. He admits that no one knows with certainty the future impact of AI on our collective lives...the possibilities range from a utopian world to a dystopian world.


The most practical thing one can do is EXPERIMENT with using AI for everyday tasks (at home, school, and work) to find out what works well and what doesn't...one particular technique for Chat GPT is to provide a role (assume you are X expert) and some context before prompting it for specific information/action. With generative AI's, even less prompting is required...simply ask for help with X problem and AI will design and execute a method to address your prompt...try both and make your own assessment of what works best for you (or doesn't). 

WARNING: Jerry Mander (paraphrasing) warned that for every task we allow technology to do for us, we are giving up something human.





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