Summary
In this clip from The Prof G Pod, Scott Galloway asks Wharton professor Ethan Mollick how AI has changed the way he thinks about raising his two children and preparing them for an uncertain future.
Mollick, a professor of entrepreneurship, says he cannot predict which jobs will exist, so he encourages his kids to pursue work they love and to favor roles with varied tasks in case AI absorbs some of them. He also describes how his family uses AI for learning: asking it to explain assignments at a ninth-grade level when they were younger, and now relying on study and quiz modes that challenge them rather than simply giving answers. He emphasizes raising resilient, self-reliant kids who can improvise.
The conversation then moves to risk. Mollick says he does not lose sleep over doomsday scenarios or prepare personally for an apocalypse, but he values people raising alarms because governments should be building plans for catastrophic risks. He points to nearer-term concerns, including deepfakes, job displacement, education, and unhealthy parasocial relationships with AI systems, and says these are societal and policy decisions. He also discusses whether synthetic relationships should be age-gated, concluding that caution is warranted given mixed research.
📺 Source: The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway · Published October 11, 2026
🏷️ Format: Interview
