Reshaping the tree: rebuilding organizations for AI

Ethan Mollick argues that organizations need to be rebuilt around AI now, because workers are already using it informally and the gains could quickly separate early adopters from laggards. He notes that a new survey found over half of people using AI at work do so without approval, and 64% have passed off AI work as their own. At Wharton Interactive, a small internal team, AI handled documentation, coding, translation and marketing, adding what he describes as multiple virtual team members for under $100 a month. He says AI-assisted meetings and prototyping could cut a week-long feature process to a day or two, and he proposes letting teams develop their own methods and building for future models.