
Ajay Agrawal is a Canadian economist and business professor whose writing focuses on artificial intelligence, innovation, and strategy. He coauthored Prediction Machines and Power and Prediction, influential books on AI’s economic implications, and is widely known for helping shape managerial thinking through his research and leadership at the Creative Destruction Lab.

Ajay Agrawal
Explore AI's transformative potential in reshaping industries and decision-making, offering insights for navigating the coming disruptions in business and society.

Ajay Agrawal & Joshua Gans & Avi Goldfarb
Economists demystify AI's impact, framing it as cheap prediction to guide business strategy and decision-making in an uncertain future.

Ajay Agrawal
Explore AI's transformative potential in reshaping industries and decision-making, offering insights for navigating the coming disruptions in business and society.

Ajay Agrawal & Joshua Gans & Avi Goldfarb
Economists demystify AI's impact, framing it as cheap prediction to guide business strategy and decision-making in an uncertain future.
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— Governor General of Canada
"Ajay Agrawal is one of Canada’s foremost business academics"
— The Globe and Mail
"Dr. Ajay Agrawal is one of the foremost voices on economics of artificial intelligence"
— Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
"A visionary leader and educator, Dr. Ajay Agrawal has transformed the Canadian entrepreneurial ecosystem"
— University of Calgary
"Ajay Agrawal is an expert on innovation economics and one of Rotman’s most popular professors"
— The Globe and Mail
"Ajay Agrawal has made incredible strides in this area"
— Forbes
"In Power and Prediction, Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb make a compelling case for a system mindset"
— Balsillie Prize Jury
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