Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

What if your smartest colleague never slept, never stopped learning, and could work across every domain you know—and many you don’t? What if AI wasn’t just a tool, but a partner in your thinking? A coach for your creativity? A strategist for your work?

 

Ethan Mollick, Wharton professor and New York Times bestselling author of Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, argues that we’ve entered a new era, not of artificial intelligence, but of co-intelligence, where humans and machines reason, imagine, and act together. But how should we use that power? What kind of judgment, skill, and humility does it demand? And how do we move beyond templates and tricks to something more profound: a new way of thinking?

 

This isn’t a conversation about prompt hacks. It’s a fundamental reframing of how we work, learn, and lead in an age of intelligent machines.

 

Ethan Mollick is the Ralph J. Roberts Distinguished Faculty Scholar, Rowan Fellow, and Associate Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he studies the effects of artificial intelligence on work, entrepreneurship, and education. His academic research has been published in leading journals, and his work on AI is widely applied, leading him to be named one of TIME Magazine’s Most Influential People in Artificial Intelligence. Ethan also writes to a wider audience about AI, including in his book, Co-Intelligence, which was a New York Times bestseller and a best book of the year from The Economist and Financial Times.

 

He has focused on the ways in which AI and simulations can transform classroom education, leading to him being named MBA Professor of the Year in Poets and Quants. In addition to his research and teaching, Ethan is the Co-Director of the Generative AI Labs at Wharton, which build prototypes and conduct research to discover how AI can help humans thrive while mitigating risks. Prior to his time in academia, Ethan co-founded a startup company, and he advises numerous organizations.

 

Mollick received his PhD and MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.