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964: In Case You Missed It in January 2026

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Ethan Mollick says over 50% of Americans use AI at work, yet organizations lack the processes to handle it.

1. Super Data Science Podcast episode 964 is an "In Case You Missed It in January 2026" roundup. 2. Jon Krohn is the host, and he frames the episode as a monthly highlights reel from earlier conversations. 3. The episode asks what listeners missed in January 2026 across AI adoption, enterprise agents, and distributed intelligence. 4. Ethan Mollick says over 50% of Americans report using AI at work in the clip from episode 962. 5. Mollick points to workers seeing a three-times performance improvement on a fifth of tasks they use AI for. 6. He says organizations often lack the processes needed to handle AI use inside agile development and sprint planning. 7. Mollick also says employees may stay secret because they are "misincentivized" to hide AI-assisted productivity. 8. He argues leadership should incentivize disclosure instead of punishing workers for higher output. 9. Mollick says teams also need a lab so people have somewhere to go with prompts that save five hours a day. 10. Sadie St. Lawrence says her 2025 disappointment was "Agents of Disappointment." 11. St. Lawrence says the divide between agent hype and practical enterprise implementation was too large. 12. She names Salesforce and SAP as examples of companies talking about agents for enterprise tools. 13. She says many companies are not set up properly to structure agents for real use. 14. Jon Krohn agrees that there is too much talk about agentic AI relative to actual enterprise impact. 15. Krohn also says data silos and security setup are part of why deployments lag. 16. Vijoy Pandey defines distributed artificial super intelligence as a framework for multi-agent human society. 17. Pandey says human intelligence scaled vertically for 300,000 to 400,000 years before language enabled horizontal scaling. 18. He says language made shared intent, shared knowledge, and shared innovation possible across tribes and generations. 19. The episode moves like a highlight reel, with Jon Krohn introducing each clip and then pivoting to the next guest. 20. Listeners who follow workplace AI, enterprise software, and evaluation frameworks will get the most from it.

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