Book · ~256 pages

Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

Ethan Mollick · Penguin Random House Paid Beginner

Mollick is a business professor who tests AI hands-on and reports what actually works, not what a vendor promises. The book gives a non-technical reader a grounded, first-hand feel for where these tools are strong and where they quietly fail. That felt sense of the frontier is what lets you judge a claim rather than take it on faith.

  • Form your own view by using the tools, not by reading takes about them
  • Keep a human in the loop and define the exact job you want done
  • Capability is uneven, so test on your real task before you believe a claim
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The question it answers

  1. As a non-technical founder, how do I evaluate a tech-heavy trend like AI without getting fooled by hype?

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