# Co-Intelligence

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Website: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741805/co-intelligence-by-ethan-mollick/

Ethan Mollick's practical guide to working alongside generative AI

Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI is a 2024 book by Ethan Mollick, a business-school professor. It describes how people can work with generative AI tools on writing, analysis and everyday tasks, using many examples from business and education. The publisher is Portfolio, part of Penguin Random House.

The book explains what generative AI systems do well and where they fail, and how people can use them as collaborators on writing, analysis and ideas. Mollick organizes his advice around concrete examples from business, education and everyday work, so readers can see what changes in their own tasks. It was published in 2024, and the tools it describes have changed quickly since, so some specific examples will date.

The book suits managers, students and professionals who want a practical starting point for AI at work and do not need technical detail. It is less about how the underlying machine learning works and less about economics than The Second Machine Age or Prediction Machines. Its trade-off is that it gives individual and team advice rather than a long-term view of jobs and markets, so it works best alongside the economic titles in this list.

- Paid | Print
- Price: Sold as a print book; price varies by seller
- Checked: 2026-10-10

## Strengths

- Practical, example-driven guide to generative AI
- Written for managers, students and professionals
- Accessible prose with no technical background needed

## Limits

- Tool examples will date as AI products change
- Little economic analysis of jobs and markets

## Rankings

- #1 of 9 in [best Career and future-of-work books](https://listme.name/best/career-and-future-of-work-books), score 90.0: The most practical guide here to working with generative AI, written for managers, students and professionals. It is the only title written with current tools in view, but its tool examples will date faster than the economic books.

## Alternatives

- [The Second Machine Age](https://listme.name/books/the-second-machine-age), score 89.0
- [Prediction Machines](https://listme.name/books/prediction-machines), score 88.5
- [Range](https://listme.name/books/range-why-generalists-triumph), score 88.0
- [So Good They Can't Ignore You](https://listme.name/books/so-good-they-cant-ignore-you), score 87.0
- [Designing Your Life](https://listme.name/books/designing-your-life), score 86.0
- [Human + Machine](https://listme.name/books/human-plus-machine), score 84.0
- [AI Superpowers](https://listme.name/books/ai-superpowers), score 82.5
- [How to Remain Valuable When Intelligence Becomes Cheap](https://listme.name/books/remain-valuable), score 70.0