20 October 2026
Claude orchestrates AI agents to make a video with little human help
First reported
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- Ethan Mollick, a Wharton professor who writes One Useful Thing, tested a Claude model in agent mode.
- Claude coordinated other AI agents to produce charts and a short video of an otter on an airplane.
- Mollick says the human needed to give very little direction to get the finished output.
How it was covered
One Useful ThingEthan Mollick
Delegating chart creation to an orchestrator agent, and an AI-generated video made with minimal input