Ethan Mollick Recommends Pre-AI Pages on Complex Systems
The Wharton professor discusses how systems survive flaws and the need for AI defenses.
Ethan Mollick posted on X recommending three pages written before the AI era on complex systems. He explained that these systems run broken yet survive because their flaws rarely line up, giving humans a chance to intervene. Mollick stated that AI can find or make aligned flaws and called for a new philosophy of system defense that uses AI. The post includes attached images of the pages. Mollick is an associate professor at Wharton and author of Co-Intelligence.
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Ethan Mollick Recommends Pre-AI Pages on Complex Systems
The Wharton professor discusses how systems survive flaws and the need for AI defenses.
Ethan Mollick posted on X recommending three pages written before the AI era on complex systems. He explained that these systems run broken yet survive because their flaws rarely line up, giving humans a chance to intervene. Mollick stated that AI can find or make aligned flaws and called for a new philosophy of system defense that uses AI. The post includes attached images of the pages. Mollick is an associate professor at Wharton and author of Co-Intelligence.
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Ethan Mollick@emollickThese 3 pages (from before AI) on complex systems are worth reading Complex systems run broken but survive because the flaws rarely line up, which allows humans a chance to intervene. AI can find or make aligned flaws. We need a similar new philosophy of system defense using AI
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