What Happens When the World is Built on Stacks of Wizards

How do you work with a "wizard"? Season two of Future Fluent kicks off with a provocative interview with Ethan Mollick, a professor, writer and deep observer of the fast evolving relationship between artificial intelligence, learning and the future of work. Agentic AI, Mollick observes, is a collection of wizards that collaborate to accomplish tasks -- even if we don't exactly understand how they do that. When should we trust wizards? What happens when we do not? And what are the implications for how we learn and teach?  

Want more? Here’s how you can follow Ethan Mollick’s work and check out other references we talk about in this show: 

• One Useful Thing: A Substack by Ethan Mollick including “On Working With Wizards” 
• Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick, April 2024
• GDPval, paper by OpenAI 
• Cognitive Apprenticeship: Making Thinking Visible by Allan Collins, John Seely Brown and Ann Holum (1991) 
• The Bitter Lesson (in AI) by Rich Sutton, March 13, 2019
• In the Age of the Smart Machine: the Future of Work and Power by Shoshana Zuboff, 1989. 

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