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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI

Something new entered our world in November 2022 — the first general purpose AI…

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4 authors picked Co-Intelligence as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I appreciated this book because it refuses both panic and blind optimism about AI. Instead, it helped us think more clearly about what it actually means to work alongside intelligent systems rather than delegate everything to them.

The book guides leaders as they decide where human judgment still matters most. I return to it when conversations drift toward extremes, because it brings the focus back to responsibility, judgment, and choice.

It reinforced my belief that leadership in the age of AI is not about replacement, but about deciding thoughtfully how humans and machines learn together.

From Paola's list on leading your team in the age of AI.

I love this book because it presents AI as friendly and approachable, more like a helpful neighbor than something scary robot.

Reading it made me realize that I don’t need to be a computer scientist to benefit from AI; I just need to know how to talk to it. I found his "rules" for interacting with AI incredibly practical for my own daily tasks. It shifted my perspective from worrying about being replaced to figuring out how to be a better "co-pilot" with the technology.

I appreciate how he uses real-world examples that any professional or student can start using…

Whether we know it or like it, AI will change the way we live, work, learn, and teach. I began last summer feeling overwhelmed about AI. This book gave me a foundation upon which to begin building my understanding and approach to artificial intelligence and the LLMs (large language models) like ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and Llama. It helped me apply my discipline knowledge in marketing communications to AI frameworks and formulate ways to apply AI in the professional world and then teach that to my college students.

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