“Three sleepless nights”—that’s what Ethan Mollick, a Wharton associate professor, says a newcomer needs to spend experimenting with tools such as ChatGPT and Midjourney to get up to speed on the current state of generative artificial intelligence. But what’s next for this new technology? How will it evolve over time? And how will it change the way we work? Mollick’s book, Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, and a plethora of other new AI-focused publications (more than 40 will be released in 2024, according to Amazon) seek to answer these questions.
The Promise and Peril of AI at Work
New books explore how it can help—and hinder—our productivity.
Jiawen Chen
Summary.
Four new books explore how AI can help—and hinder—our productivity: Co-Intelligence, by Ethan Mollick; The Singularity Is Nearer, by Ray Kurzweil; The Mind’s Mirror, by Daniela Rus and Gregory Mone; and Slow Productivity, by Cal Newport.
A version of this article appeared in the July–August 2024 issue of Harvard Business Review.