Ethan Mollick
Using AI has fundamentally shifted from chatbot conversations to agentic systems that can do the equivalent of many hours of real human work by combining AI models with tools for planning and action
GPT-5 has been released
AI capability gains are accelerating at a better than exponential rate
AI models from leading American labs are releasing more quickly than ever
The AI frontier remains jagged and AIs remain weak in many places despite capability gains
Assessments from METR and UK's AI Security Institute show AI can do increasing amounts of human programmer work with a single prompt, growing at better than exponential rate
Government interventions temporarily stopped access to two of the most powerful models: Claude Fable and GPT-5.6