On Working with Wizards

Mollick describes the shift from AI as a transparent partner whose steps you can follow to an opaque one that hands back a finished result you cannot verify or learn from. You leave with a concrete way to decide which classroom tasks preserve learning value and which can safely be delegated.

Task

Teaching & course design

Time

12 min

Level

intermediate

Cost

Free — Nothing to pay. A free account at most.

Tools

None in particular

Published

2025-09-11

Voice

Ethan Mollick — The fastest plain-English translation of frontier model capability into what it means for teaching, research, and the way universities work, written by someone who tests each release himself.