What to know about living and working with AI

Ethan Mollick's guidelines of using AI: “always invite AI to the table, be the human in the loop, treat AI like a person and assume this is the worst AI you will ever use.”

Air Date: July 18, 2025 12:00 pm

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Artificial intelligence is here to stay and it’s only going to get more sophisticated and more embedded in our daily lives.

That raises an important question: How do we use AI so that it enhances how we live, learn and work?

We asked Ethan Mollick, a professor at the Wharton School and author of Co-Intelligence, to be our guide on The Connection this week.

He says think of large language models like ChatGPT as a co-worker, collaborator, teammate, or partner. He offers some basic guidelines when using AI like, “always invite AI to the table, be the human in the loop, treat AI like a person and assume this is the worst AI you will ever use.”

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