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Ethan Mollick, Wharton Associate Professor, says the absence of clear mental models for compounding AI gains hinders long-term planning and policy development

Current AI tools offer little assistance generating useful projections.

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Haydn Belfield#1459@HAYDNBELFIELDOPSanti RuizSanti Ruiz@RSANTI97

The models are just going to keep getting better and better and better and better. It's not easy to get one's head around this.

8:14 AM · May 21, 2026 View on X
QUOTE POSTEthan Mollick#175Ethan Mollick@EMOLLICK

I don't think anyone has a good intuitive sense about what this means, and that failure of imagination is a generally bad thing for planning, investment, and policy.

I also don't have an easy solution (funnily enough, AIs are cliche at imagining the AI future, so no help there)

Santi RuizSanti Ruiz@rSanti97

The models are just going to keep getting better and better and better and better. It's not easy to get one's head around this.

3:14 PM · May 21, 2026 · 18.9K Views
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