One Useful Thing

Trying to understand the implications of AI for work, education, and life. By Prof. Ethan Mollick

Mollick: GPT-6 Astra e Fable 5.1 fanno già settimane di lavoro umano

One Useful Thing20h20 hours ago8 min read

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On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, Another informal nerd benchmark that AIs had struggled with has been passed: Astra successfully designed a Magic the Gathering deck and then used it to defeat a bot on Arena., and more ›

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Agency and Agents

One Useful Thing2w2 weeks agoHN2 Covered by59 min read

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Metacurity, OODAloop, and more ›

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Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing, OpenAI Hugging Face Incident Technical Report, and more ›

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An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff

One Useful Thing8w8 weeks agoCovered by810 min read

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Simon Willison’s Weblog, Substack, and more ›

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GPT‑Live, NotebookLM by Google, and more ›

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The twilight of the chatbots - by Ethan Mollick

One Useful Thing11w11 weeks agoHN Covered by35 min read

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Task-Completion Time Horizons of Frontier AI Models, How fast is autonomous AI cyber capability advancing?, and more ›

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What it feels like to work with Mythos

One Useful Thing14w14 weeks agoHN Covered by278 min read

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The Decoder, Boing Boing, and more ›

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emollick/concord: Instrument-grade qualitative text analysis: AI-coded corpora, gold calibration, DSL/PPI-corrected statistics, Evidence Ladder, a game of heads & tails

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Co-Existence and the End of Co-Intelligence

One Useful Thing15w15 weeks agoHN Covered by56 min read

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MacStories, and more ›

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When AI Builds Itself, Co-Existence: The Next Phase of AI

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Choosing to Stay Human

One Useful Thing16w16 weeks agoHN Covered by78 min read

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Covered by7 sites

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Thinking Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender by Steven D Shaw, Gideon Nave, How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills, and more ›

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Sign of the future: GPT-5.5

One Useful Thing21w21 weeks agoHN Covered by26 min read

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Substack, and more ›

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Claude Dispatch and the Power of Interfaces

One Useful Thing24w24 weeks agoHN

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The Shape of the Thing

One Useful Thing27w27 weeks agoHN2

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A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era

One Useful Thing30w30 weeks agoHN2 Covered by2

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InfoWorld, VoxDev ›

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Management as AI superpower

One Useful Thing33w33 weeks agoHN Covered by3

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The Neuron, and more ›

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Claude Code and What Comes Next

One Useful Thing36w36 weeks agoHN

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The Shape of AI: Jaggedness, Bottlenecks and Salients

One Useful Thing38w38 weeks agoHN2 Covered by4

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Drew Breunig, conspicuouscognition.com, and more ›

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Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3

One Useful Thing43w43 weeks agoHN2

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Giving your AI a Job Interview

One Useful Thing44w44 weeks agoHN

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An Opinionated Guide to Using AI

One Useful Thing47w47 weeks agoHN

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Real AI Agents and Real Work

One Useful Thing50w50 weeks agoHN2

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On Working with Wizards

One Useful Thing53w53 weeks agoHN Covered by4

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Mass Intelligence

One Useful Thing55w55 weeks agoHN

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