What Ethan Mollick addresses here is likely to be one of the key challenges with AI in the coming years: the gap between what current AI models are capable of and what most people are using them for is large, and growing. Closing this gap means finding ways to work better with AI by leveraging what Mollik identifies as the four key advantages humans have over AI: deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste and agency.

From Weekly Filet #588, in October 2026.