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Ajay Agrawal

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.

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The task that AI makes abundant and inexpensive is prediction
-What to Expect From Artificial Intelligence
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Prediction and judgment are complements as long as judgment is not too difficult
-Prediction, Judgment and Complexity
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AI adoption may, therefore, require system-wide change which is both a constraint and an opportunity
-AI Adoption and System-Wide Change
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labor and antitrust policies will influence the consequences of AI in terms of employment, inequality, and competition
-Economic Policy for Artificial Intelligence
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the skills that will be important later in their careers are going to be different than the skills that are important today
-Artificial Intelligence in the Office and the Factory
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So when people ask if humans are going to be necessary, the answer is that our value goes up as we can apply our judgment
-Ajay Agrawal explains economics of AI
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As AI prediction advances, the distribution of judgment will increasingly determine the distribution of wealth and power
-Machine Intelligence and Human Judgment
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Everything is built on systems of constraint, and until we revisit the rules that glue these systems together, AI will only ever add incremental value
-AI could fundamentally change the way systems are built...if we let it

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