# Ethan Mollick

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Ethan Mollick is a Wharton professor and the author of One Useful Thing. His practical experiments are useful for understanding how people delegate, supervise and collaborate with general-purpose AI assistants.

Source: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/about

Biography comes from One Useful Thing and Wharton; portrait comes from the linked public GitHub profile. Checked September 19, 2026.

## Referenced in 101

- [On-boarding your AI intern](https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/on-boarding-your-ai-intern) — Treat a general AI like a talented but context-poor intern: give goals, examples, constraints and feedback instead of expecting one perfect prompt.
- [Centaurs and cyborgs on the jagged frontier](https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/centaurs-and-cyborgs-on-the-jagged) — People work with AI either by dividing tasks or intertwining their effort, and both approaches fail when they misjudge the model's jagged capability boundary.
- [Agency and agents](https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/agency-and-agents) — Giving models tools and room to plan produces useful initiative but also longer chains of compounding error and harder supervision.

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