OCTOBER 21 — In 2024, Ethan Mollick found the right metaphor. He described AI as "something remarkably close to an alien co-intelligence," not human, yet capable of holding a conversation with us.

That framing changed how we approached AI. Instead of treating it merely as a search engine, we began to see it as a collaborator, something we could question, challenge and think aloud with.

Mollick's book, Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, arrived at just the right moment. ChatGPT had made AI personal, and Mollick showed us how to make the most of that relationship.

A professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at Wharton, he offered four practical rules: invite AI to the table, keep a human in the loop, treat it like a person but tell it what role to play, and remember that the AI you use today will be the worst you will ever use.