Deep Knowledge, Wide Knowledge, Taste, and Agency: Ethan Mollick’s Four Human Advantages

About this episode

Ethan Mollick is a Wharton professor whose newsletter, One Useful Thing, is how many people keep up with new AI models. In a September post he described four personal advantages that matter when you work with AI: deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agency. The framework comes from his new book, Co-Existence: The Next Phase of AI, out October 20. Morgan brings the framework, and she and Núria take the four advantages one at a time. Deep knowledge is what lets you tell whether the AI’s output is good. Núria points out that when you ask AI to do something you are not good at, the result looks impressive, and when you ask it to do something you know well, you can see what is wrong or…