What happens when a new tool emerges and its potential impact is still becoming apparent? Artificial Intelligence is one of the most controversial and least understood technologies emerging today. Our guest Ethan Mollick is the Ralph J. Roberts Distinguished Faculty Scholar 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, a New York Times bestseller.

Alongside host Meryl Cohen, they discuss how current AI tools contrast with existing technologies used in healthcare and where that technology is going. Ethan shares use cases that have highlighted what AI can do to enhance our work, and they talk how to make this tech work with us and not against us. They also discuss how learners may already be using and how academics should approach AI to improve outcomes in their daily tasks. They also discuss how med students may be using AI and what effects it has on their learning. In a unique culmination for the episode, Ethan shows how tools today can synthesize a published paper into study guides, FAQs, and even a miniature podcast!