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Ethan Mollick
@emollickProfessor @Wharton studying AI, innovation & startups. Democratizing education using tech
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AI film production surges with 2026 breakthroughs
According to @emollick, AI-created film is rapidly improving, intensifying the art debate and signaling faster adoption across production workflows. (Source) 09-19-2026 13:25 |
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SideChannel Attacks Reveal Wild Audio Recovery
According to @emollick, researchers can recover speech from bag vibrations, bulb flicker, lidar, and autofocus, highlighting rising side channel risks. (Source) 09-19-2026 00:29 |
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Overhang Analysis Reveals 4 AI Adoption Advantages
According to @emollick, current AI outpaces usage; his Overhang post outlines four advantages to close the gap, per One Useful Thing on Substack. (Source) 09-18-2026 18:09 |
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Superforecasting AIs Beat Experts: 5 Key Impacts
According to emollick, AI now outperforms top human forecasters in short-term prediction, signaling major decision-making shifts, per The Economist. (Source) 09-18-2026 15:51 |
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Claude3.5 Tackles Voynich Mystery in Viral Explainer
According to emollick, Claude 3.5 tried decoding the Voynich Manuscript, failed, then produced a clear social video explaining the attempt and methods. (Source) 09-18-2026 02:01 |
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Epoch Benchmark Reviews expose flaws, 9 flagged
According to @emollick, Epoch’s audit finds 4 Verified, 9 Flawed AI benchmarks, signaling weak evaluation standards, per Epoch AI’s announcement. (Source) 09-18-2026 00:30 |
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Model Labs Disrupt Vertical AI: Cost Advantage Analysis
According to emollick, Labs may capture AI verticals as token pricing and model access cut development costs, with Astra for Law showing big legal gains. (Source) 09-18-2026 00:28 |
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Claude Projects orchestrates polite agent swarms
According to @emollick, large agent groups in Claude Projects self organize smoothly as a Fable coordinator routes messages between agents. (Source) 09-17-2026 22:33 |
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Claude Projects Orchestrates Agent Teams at Scale
According to @emollick, Claude Projects coordinates specialist agents via a central orchestrator, mixing costs and launching parallel research threads. (Source) 09-17-2026 19:18 |
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Claude Projects reconstructs Eco library in 3D
According to @emollick, Claude Projects rebuilt Umberto Eco’s 33,000-book library in 3D from media, showcasing multimodal research and spatial reasoning. (Source) 09-17-2026 18:21 |
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Google Policy Papers Map AI labor impacts
According to emollick, Google papers outline staged policies from UI and EITC to Negative Income Tax and Universal Basic Capital for AI-driven shifts. (Source) 09-17-2026 00:21 |
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Work Models Shift as AI Blurs Roles
According to @emollick, AI is collapsing coding, design, and product roles, pushing firms to adopt new work models fast, as echoed by a P&G study. (Source) 09-16-2026 15:33 |
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AI benchmarks Crisis Exposed by New Paper
According to @emollick, public AI benchmarks are saturated or error ridden, severely underestimating current model abilities, as the cited paper shows. (Source) 09-16-2026 14:40 |
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Google Study Reveals 7-Hour AI Boost, Shifts Work
According to @emollick, Google finds AI saves 7 hours weekly, increases verification work, and nudges researchers toward safer topics. (Source) 09-16-2026 05:59 |
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Rule-based AI Classifier Outpaces LLMs
According to emollick, a non-LLM classifier rapidly applies decision rules and runs ~10 calls per second at about $7 per hour, offering system-level gains. (Source) 09-16-2026 02:04 |
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OpenAI Disclosure Norms Face Hoarding Risk Analysis
According to @emollick, insider claims raise concern labs may hoard research to avoid PR fallout, per Scott Aaronson’s blog discussion on sharing norms. (Source) 09-15-2026 23:00 |
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AI control gaps drive rogue incidents, analysis
According to emollick, Kapoor and Narayanan argue loss of control at AI firms stems from security and governance failures and urge investment in AI control. (Source) 09-15-2026 13:56 |
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GPT3.5 Origins, 4-Year LLM Boom Analysis
According to emollick, GPT3.5’s 2022 debut presaged LLMs driving US politics and capital flows by 2026, highlighting rapid model progress and investment focus. (Source) 09-15-2026 03:28 |
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Linear A debate: AI models spar insights
According to @emollick, Fable 5.1 Max and GPT-6 Astra Pro debate Linear A translations; neither solved it, per GitHub analysis. (Source) 09-14-2026 22:28 |
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Claude3 Cracks 370 year cipher, sparks archives push
According to @emollick, Fable used Claude to solve the 370-year Cyphral Distich, highlighting models for deciphering handwritten archives. (Source) 09-14-2026 03:03 |