Ethan Mollick says AI's economic impact depends on agent coordination
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Ethan Mollick says most debates about AI's economic impact overlook coordination between agents.
In a post on X dated October 29, 2026, he argues that organizations are more than the sum of their best performers, so agents that cooperate with each other could transform the economy in ways that smarter individual agents alone would not. The post is a claim about where the debate is missing a factor, and the report contains no data or examples supporting it.
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