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Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
by Ethan Mollick
Summary
Ethan Mollick writes about generative AI from the perspective of someone actually using it: as collaborator, tutor, simulator, brainstorming partner, and unreliable fluent machine that still needs human judgment. Co-Intelligence is useful because it avoids both tech-bro worship and lazy dismissal. It shows readers how to experiment with AI, delegate bounded tasks, check outputs, and think about work and education as the tools change. For anxious knowledge workers and parents, the book gives a practical middle path: learn the systems closely enough to use them well, without pretending they are magic or harmless.
“Ultimately, that is all ChatGPT does technically—act as a very elaborate autocomplete like you have on your phone.”
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