How to Work Smarter with AI
Embracing the AI Advantage
Ethan Mollick highlights the importance of recognizing our agency in shaping artificial intelligence's future, urging us to balance its potential benefits and risks while ensuring it enhances human flourishing rather than succumbing to polarized narratives.
Our Inevitable Future with AI
In late 2022, ChatGPT popularized "generative artificial intelligence," which encompasses large language models capable of producing diverse outputs, prompting Professor Ethan Mollick to explore their implications and how we can effectively coexist and thrive with this transformative technology.
Four Guiding Principles for Using AI
In a video lesson, Professor Ethan Mollick outlines how to effectively integrate generative AI into your workflow, emphasizing the importance of human oversight, contextual guidance, and the proactive exploration of AI's capabilities while remaining aware of its limitations.
Getting Started with AI
Professor Ethan Mollick compares centaurs and cyborgs to illustrate how to effectively integrate generative AI into work, suggesting a clear division of tasks in the Centaur Model or a blended approach in the Cyborg Model to enhance performance and innovation.
Prompting AI
In a video lesson, Professor Ethan Mollick emphasizes that providing clear, step-by-step instructions and engaging interactively with AI can significantly improve its output quality, akin to training an intern, while also advising on the strategic timing of AI consultation.
Dealing with Hallucinations
In this video lesson, Professor Ethan Mollick discusses navigating the unpredictable nature of large language models, emphasizing the importance of understanding their limitations, managing potential misinformation, and continuously updating one’s knowledge of AI's evolving capabilities.
Using AI as a Sounding Board
In this video lesson, Professor Ethan Mollick discusses how incorporating AI as a brainstorming partner can enhance creativity by generating unconventional ideas, encouraging high-variance thinking, and ultimately revolutionizing the innovation process.
Using AI as a Coach
Generative AI can enhance learning by providing context-rich explanations, examples, and feedback, similar to effective teaching methods, as demonstrated by Professor Ethan Mollick in his video lesson on utilizing AI as a tutor.
Using AI Ethically
As generative AI evolves, ethical concerns about bias, privacy, and copyright arise, prompting the need for awareness and responsible usage, as discussed by Professor Ethan Mollick in his video lesson on navigating these challenges in professional contexts.
How to Lead with AI
As generative AI transforms society, leaders must model responsible use by fostering collaboration, setting realistic guidelines, encouraging exploration, creating a cooperative culture, ensuring data privacy, and demonstrating effective AI practices to guide their teams.
Generative AI is everywhere. And everyone, it seems, has a strong opinion about what it means for humanity. This can leave workers wondering: Should we be worried or excited? Cautious or bold? Transparent about our use or secretive?
But Ethan Mollick thinks we should consider starting with different questions. Like: What does AI actually do? And what can we do with it? By experimenting with the latest large language models, we’ll be better positioned to supercharge our skills – and in the process, form an ethical, empowering partnership with AI.
Learning Objectives
- Explore generative AI’s capabilities and grow professionally with it.
- Augment your creative process with AI.
- Collaborate with and delegate tasks to AI effectively.
- Examine AI biases and plagiarism concerns.
- Engage in cooperative, curious, and responsible AI use.