Ajay Agrawal

Professor Ajay Agrawal conducts research on the economics of artificial intelligence. He is co-author of Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence (Harvard Business School Press). Ajay is also the founder of the Creative Destruction Lab, which is home to the greatest concentration of AI startups on the planet, NEXT AI, a program for AI entrepreneurs, and Kindred AI, which builds machines with human-like intelligence and was named to The MIT Technology Review's 50 Smartest Companies of 2017 as well as CB Insights' AI 100 (2018). Due in part to his work on AI, in 2017 The Globe & Mail listed Professor Agrawal as one of the 50 Most Powerful People in Canadian Business.