[ExI] AI on the Exponential

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30 Months on the Exponential (in Charts)
My new book is out today... what happened since the last one
Ethan Mollick  20 Oct 2026

<https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/30-months-on-the-exponential-in-charts>
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But AI’s gains have been so large that how we work with it has to
change. In Co-Intelligence, I wrote about centaur work (divided
between AI and humans) and cyborg work (blended between AI and
humans). Both keep you in the loop… but you can only be in so many
loops at once. Now that we have real agents, I added a third way to
work with AI: the conjurer. Conjurers summon agents when needed,
assign them work, and evaluates what comes back. The charts in this
post were made that way: I summoned agents, gave some general
guidance, and I said “make it better” a lot. It is the most powerful
way to use AI, and it carries new risks as we lose control over what,
exactly, the AI is doing to get us those results.
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Does anybody else feel that living on the exponential is rather unnerving?
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