Will AI Replace Me? The Co-Intelligence Book Has a More Honest Answer | How to Work with AI

A colleague used AI to draft a full training proposal last week. Three days of work. Forty minutes. It was good. The thought that followed wasn’t amazement. It was: “will AI replace me?” If you’ve felt that — the excitement and the dread in the same breath — this episode is for you. We break down Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick, a Wharton professor whose answer to that question is sharper than reassurance:

AI won’t replace you. But it will replace professionals who never learn how to work with it.

Mollick calls the result of genuine human-AI collaboration “co-intelligence” — something neither of you can produce alone. You bring judgment, context, and values. AI brings speed, memory, and scale. Together, the  ...