Will AI take your job? You have more agency than you think

In an interview about his book Co-Existence: The Next Phase of AI, Wharton professor Ethan Mollick argues that AI agents can now handle hours or weeks of work and that people should use AI to understand it rather than pretend it will go away. He says the defining question for workers is which skills to offload and which to keep, warning that de-skilling is a real problem as intellectual craft faces industrialization. Mollick describes "anxious optimism" as a reasonable stance, urging people to face the transition and think about rebuilding a better world rather than sitting it out.