Ethan Mollick Flags Lost Insight into AI Work Processes

Ethan Mollick stated that rapid AI progress is eroding researchers' empirical view of micro-level work changes in the post-2026 agentic era. He noted existing academic studies examine chatbot effects on jobs yet offer far less detail on autonomous agents. Mollick, an associate professor at Wharton and author of Co-Intelligence, made the observation in a public post. No additional confirmation or counter-evidence appears in the packet.