United States
Ethan Mollick is the Ralph J. Roberts Distinguished Faculty Scholar, Rowan Fellow, and Associate Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he studies the effects of artificial intelligence on work, entrepreneurship, and education. His academic research has been published in leading journals, and his work on AI is widely applied, leading him to be named one of TIME Magazine’s Most Influential People in Artificial Intelligence. Ethan also writes to a wider audience about AI, including in his book, Co-Intelligence, which was a New York Times bestseller and a best book of the year from The Economist and Financial Times. He has focused on the ways in which AI and simulations can transform classroom education, leading to him being named MBA Professor of the Year in Poets and Quants. In addition to his research and teaching, Ethan is the Co-Director of the Generative AI Labs at Wharton, which build prototypes and conduct research to discover how AI can help humans thrive while mitigating risks.
I am a professor and Co-Director of the Generative AI Lab at Wharton, where I study and teach about innovation, AI, and entrepreneurship. I also build tools, games, and AI applications to democratize education.
Previous positions included co-founding a successful software company, inventing the transistor, squaring the circle, and winning the gold in the 1976 Olympics in gymnastics at the age of one. I was also the original Lord of the Dance.