Solutions with Henry Blodget The Jagged Frontier: How AI Will Transform Your Job, According to Wharton's Ethan Mollick
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Mar 30, 2026 
Ethan Mollick, Wharton professor and Substack writer focused on innovation and AI in education. He describes AI as a jagged frontier where some tasks are automated and others still need humans. Conversation highlights agents transforming coding and work, management and delegation gaining value, AI reshaping classroom learning, and how skills must adapt to an uneven future.
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The Otter Test Shows Visual AI Progress
- Mollick's long-running otter test tracks progress in image and video generation by asking AIs to create otters on airplanes.
- The task went from quirky images to entire movies generated from prompts, showing rapid creative gains.
Agents Enable Real Delegation
- We moved from big-data models to co‑intelligence with chatbots and now to practical autonomous agents.
- Agents can be given goals and complete hours of human work autonomously, enabling true delegation of tasks.
AI Breaks The Apprenticeship Pipeline
- AI threatens the traditional apprenticeship pipeline because interns can use AI to produce high-quality outputs without learning the underlying craft.
- That breaks on‑the‑job learning and forces organizations to rebuild deliberate mentorship and testing.