Ethan Mollick Advises Making AI Tasks More Ambitious

What happened

My general advice for using AI for any purpose is to ask yourself: "How do I make what I am doing even more ambitious?" You do this until you either hit a wall and then you know the shape of the frontier (useful!) or you find out that the AI can do more than you think (common!)

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The story so far

Ethan Mollick urged people using AI to keep making their tasks more ambitious, saying this can reveal either the technology’s limits or capabilities they had underestimated. His advice was to repeatedly ask, “How do I make what I am doing even more ambitious?” Mollick said users should continue until they hit a wall, which helps them understand the frontier of what AI can do, or discover that it can do more than they expected—an outcome he described as common.