Ethan Mollick builds a Halloween "ghost census" app with Claude Opus 5.5
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Ethan Mollick says Claude Opus 5.5 suggested a Halloween project based on his existing work: a "ghost census" that counts how many people died within 100 meters of a chosen location, going back up to a century.
Mollick published the app at ghost-census.netlify.app. The report is Mollick's own account on X, and no other sources are cited.
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Ethan Mollick@emollickXMollick builds a Halloween "ghost census" app with Claude Opus 5.5AIEthan Mollick says Claude Opus 5.5 suggested a spooky project based on his existing work, a "ghost census" that counts how many people died within 100 meters of a chosen location throughout history up to a century ago. He published the result at ghost-census.netlify.app.
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