Media

Artificial Intelligence

• How Large Language Models Reflect Human Judgement, Harvard Business Review (June 12, 2023)

• The Turing Transformation: Artificial intelligence, intelligence augmentation, and skill premiums, Brookings (June 12, 2023)

• Why AI is the productivity boost we’ve been waiting for, Financial Review (April 18, 2023)

• Lampert Institute Hosts Lecture on ‘Disruptive Economics’ of AI, The Colgate Maroon-News (March 31, 2023)

• The Business Case for Quantum Computing, MIT Sloan Management Review (March 7, 2023)

• AI Maybe Be Slow in Delivering But Will ‘Bring Fundamental Change’, Forbes (February 27, 2023)

• AI Will Have a Revolutionary Effect on Executive Decision-Making, Brink News (February 14, 2023)

• AI - Seen through an economics lens , Data Quest (February 7, 2023)

• Why applied artificial intelligence needs a major mind-shift, TechTalks (December 27, 2022)

• A broader approach to AI would cut bias in immigration decisions while adding speed, Policy Opinions (December 22, 2022)

• Twitter Suspensions Draw International Outrage, The New York Times (December 16, 2022)

• Opinion: ChatGPT, AI can boost the economy by removing language barriers from immigrants seeking employment, The Globe and Mail (December 15, 2022)

• Ten Best Business Books of 2022, Forbes (December 14, 2022)

• ChatGPT and How AI Disrupts Industries, Harvard Business Review (December 12, 2022)

• Hitting the Books: AI is already reshaping air travel, will airports themselves be next?, Engadget (December 4, 2022)

• From Prediction to Transformation, Harvard Business Review (November - December 2022)

• Surprise emergence of a ‘unicorn’ startup in Newfoundland provides a clue about AI’s near future in business, Toronto Star (November 26, 2022)

• 10 must-read tech books for 2023, The Enterprisers Project (November 24, 2022)

• Book review: ‘Power and Prediction‘, E&T (November 16, 2022)

• The Value of Artificial Intelligence Isn’t Just Insights, Forbes (October 25, 2022)

• Economist’s View of Artificial Intelligence: Beyond Cheaper Prediction Power, Forbes (September 17, 2022)

• The five best books to understand AI, The Economist (August 4, 2022)

• U of T events explores the ‘myths of technology and the realities of war’, U of T News (May 25, 2022)

• Artificial Intelligence and the Human Context of War, The National Interest (April 30, 2022)

• New Study Reveals How AI AI - Seen through an Will Change Future Workplaces, SearchHRSoftware (April 1, 2022)

• How Does AI Factor into Growing Canada’s Economy?, The Hill Times (March 30, 2022)

• AI Adoption is Lagging in Radiology and the Rest of Healthcare. Brookings Experts Answer Why, Radiology Business (March 14, 2022)

• Why is AI Adoption in Health Care Lagging?, Brookings (March 9, 2022)

• Quantum computing is coming. What can it do?, Harvard Business Review (July 16, 2021)

• New research shows the robots are coming for jobs—but stealthily, The Economist (January 16, 2021)

• La economía y geopolítica, patas arriba por la inteligencia artificial, La Vanguardia (December 10, 2020)

• We May Be Exactly Wrong About Technology and Inequality, Bloomberg (December 9, 2020)

• Five Steps To Serenity, Army ALT Magazine, Science and Technology (December 7, 2020)

• Ryerson and UofT Professors are researching how AI could change Refugee Law, The Eye Opener (November 24, 2020)

• How to Win with Machine Learning, Harvard Business Review (September-October 2020)

• Quietly Waiting in the Background of the pandemic; AI is about to become a big part of our lives, Financial Post (August 14, 2020)

• Four Ways AI and Location Intelligence Are Guiding The Future of Business, Forbes (June 9, 2020)

• The Power Of Cheap Prediction: How AI is Transforming Tasks, Business Models, and Strategy, Your Story (April 2, 2020)

• Human Judgement Will Become More Valuable in the Age of AI, Hindu Business Line (February 4, 2020)

• 7 Books to Read Right Now If You Want To Become An AI Expert, Business Insider (January 22, 2020)

• How Patents Can tell Us What Jobs AI is Posed to Disrupt, Brookings (January 9, 2020)

• Business Leaders: Integrating Ai and Machine Learning Starts With Your Data Scientists, Forbes (December 13, 2019)

• Decision Making in Our Increasingly Complex Organizations, The Wall Street Journal (July 12, 2019)

• My favourite three business books of the year, CtrlShift (January 15, 2019)

• Cutting through AI hype, Data Driven Investor (January 8, 2019)

• Reskilling without a sunset clause, Observer Research Foundation (January 4, 2019)

• How Artificial Intelligence Impacts International Trade, World Trade Report (2018)

• ‘Prediction Machines’ and Your Campus AI Discussion, Inside Higher ED (December 5, 2018)

• Here’s what to read over the holidays, Insights by Stanford Business (December 4, 2018)

• Understand how AI can change your business with this one simple trick, IT World Canada (November 15, 2018)

• The Human Brain is a Time Traveller, New York Times (November 15, 2018)

• No, Automation is Not a Mass Jobs-Killer, New York Post (November 12, 2018)

• Does a machine colonised future await Indian youth in the era of Industry 4.0, First Post (November 9, 2018)

• It’s time to take India-Canada ties out of the US’s shadow, Quartz (November 9, 2018)

• 5 ways AI will change the way you think about everything, Fast Company (November 7, 2018)

• How artificial intelligence could replace credit scores and reshape how we get loans, NPR MarketWatch (November 7, 2018)

• Prediction Machines, AIMed (October 28, 2018)

• From Agriculture to Art — the AI wave sweeps in, New York Times (October 21, 2018)

• How technology helps us make better HR decisions, HR Executive (October 3, 2018)

• Using AI to improve your predictive capabilities, Forbes (September 19, 2018)

• Tackling the risks of prediction machines, DZone (September 1, 2018)

• Avi Goldfarb on prediction machines, ORF Interview (August 29, 2018)

• AI Bootcamp: 10 books to get up to speed, The Enterprisers Project (August 27, 2018)

• Artificial Intelligence Still Isn’t All That Smart, Bloomberg (August 16, 2018)

• When Prediction Gets Cheap, Strategy+Business (August 8, 2018)

• Economic Policy For Artificial Intelligence, Vox (August 8, 2018)

• There's nothing to fear from the rise of the machines, Money Week (July 26, 2018)

• How AI will change your life, business and the economy, EFT Trends (July 25, 2018)

• Then They Came for the Lawyers, Foreign Policy (July 16, 2018)

• The Economics of Artificial Intelligence -- How cheap predictions will change the world, Forbes (July 10, 2018)

• Three Books Consider What Happens When the Robots Take Over, New York Times (July 9, 2018)

• Why AI is as important as electricity, Handelsblatt (July 6, 2018)

• What Politicos Are Reading This Summer, Politico (July 4, 2018)

• AI Ecosystem in Toronto a Model, Techristic (July 3, 2018)

• Book Review: 'Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence' by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb, San Francisco Review of Books (June 30, 2018)

• AI: The ally that will boost your predictions, Business Digest (June 28, 2018)

• How to prepare your kids for jobs that don’t exist yet, Fast Company (June 27, 2018)

• The Future of AI, BNN Bloomberg Money Talk (June 25, 2018)

• How artificial intelligence changes business, Obserwator Finance (June 24, 2018)

• How an algorithm may decide your career, The Economist (June 23, 2018)

• Six Books Worth Reading This Summer, Bloomberg (June 21, 2018)

• Everyone except the government knows childcare isn't predictable, Sydney Morning Herald (June 18, 2018)

• How AI can help leaders make better decisions, Forbes (June 14, 2018)

• Q&A: Author Avi Goldfarb on How AI Will Change the World—Without Sci-Fi Glamour, AdWeek (June 13, 2018)

• The Market for Driverless Cars Will Head Towards Monopoly, The Economist (June 9, 2018)

• Why Should AI Matter to You, Scaling Up Business Podcast (June 8, 2018)

• The Predictive Power Of AI, Forbes (June 4, 2018)

• Books: AI Strategy, Associations Now (June 1, 2018)

• Google’s AI Assistant Is a Reminder that Privacy and Security Are Not the Same, Harvard Business Review (May 30, 2018)

• Prediction Machines: The Economics of Artificial Intelligence, HBR IdeaCast (May 22, 2018)

• Cheap innovations are often better than magical ones, Financial Times (May 4, 2018)

• Understanding Algorithms, The Undercover Economist (April 30, 2018)

• As AI goes corporate, startups look to prove themselves, Globe and Mail (April 27, 2018)

• India could be the data hub for the AI arrival, Hindustan Times (April 27, 2018)

• Prediction machines: The current wave of AI, BNN Business Day (April 26, 2018)

• Toward a national policy on AI, Policy Options (April 25, 2018)

• The Economics of Artificial Intelligence, McKinsey Quarterly (April 24, 2018)

• A Simple Tool to Start Making Decisions with the Help of AI, Harvard Business Review (April 17, 2018)

• Make Sure AI is Right For Your Business Before Taking the Plunge, Globe and Mail (April 13, 2018)

• Business Books to Watch in April, 800CEORead (April 10, 2018)

• Artificial Intelligence in the Boardroom. The Corporate Board (March/April 2018)

• Prediction Machines The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence, Reviewed, Irish Tech News (March 23, 2018)

• Is Your Company’s Data Actually Valuable in the Era of AI? Harvard Business Review (January 17, 2018)

• Why scan reading artificial intelligence is bad news for radiologists, The Economist (November 29, 2017)

• How robots may make radiologist's jobs easier, not redundant, Wall Street Journal (November 22, 2017)

• How AI Will Change Strategy: A Thought Experiment, Harvard Business Review (October 03, 2017)

• Rise of AI will raise importance of good human judgment, The Irish Times (September 1, 2017)

• What Econ 101 can teach us about Artificial Intelligence, Wall Street Journal (August 9, 2017)

• We Survived Spreadsheets, and We’ll Survive AI, Wall Street Journal (August 2, 2017)

• How AI Will Change the Way We Make Decisions, Harvard Business Review (July 26, 2017)

• The Trade-Off Every AI Company Will Face, Harvard Business Review (March 28, 2017)

• Billion Dollar Breakout, Globe & Mail (March 17, 2017)

• What to Expect from Artificial Intelligence, MIT Sloan Management Review (February 7, 2017)

• The Obama’s Administration’s Roadmap for AI Policy, Harvard Business Review (December 21, 2016)

• The Simple Economics of Machine Intelligence, Harvard Business Review (November 17, 2016)

• The Path Prescription: Closing the Gap Between the Promise and the Reality of Big Data, Harvard Business Review (September 01, 2015)

Privacy

• Keeping Up With Insurance Innovations, Advisor’s Edge (March 27, 2020)

• How Facebook and Google Could Benefit From the G.D.P.R., Europe’s New Privacy Law, The New York Times (April 23, 2018)

• Et si la protection de la vie privée sur Internet était contre-productive?, Les Echos.fr (May 4, 2015)

• A Matter of Privacy, Communications of the ACM (December, 2010)

Crowdfunding

• Looking for a Breakthrough? Study Says to Make Time for Tedium, The New York Times (August 15, 2015)

• Food Deserts, Community Colleges And Innovative Slackers, FiveThirtyEight (May 6, 2015)

• The Surprising Reason Programs like Google's "20% time" Work, Quartz.com ( May 5, 2015)

• Bandwagon Behaviour, The Economist (July 20, 2013)

Online Advertising

• The Rotman Review: "Navigating the Future of Digital Marketing, Poets and Quants (March 30, 2022)

• TV Ads Have "‘Unintended Effect’ on Trading Activity, Wealth Professional (July 12, 2019)

• The impact of TV Ads on Stock Trading, Wall Street Journal (July 8, 2019)

• Something for the Weekend, Financial Times (May 4, 2013)

• Advertising: Web tangles traditional ad bans, study finds, Toronto Star (May 31, 2011)

• Study: Consumers Creeped Out by Some Big, Targeted Ads, AdAge (June 17, 2010)

• How Not to Market the Web, Sloan Management Review (Winter 2010)

Other Digitization

• San Francisco's Increasing Dominance Over U.S. Innovation, City Lab (May 25, 2016)

• Collaboration: The Geography of Discovery, Nature (May 5, 2016)

• Cynicism about Mobile Advertising is Greatly Misplaced, The Conversation (August 19, 2015)

• Are You Letting Data Drive Your Decisions? Globe and Mail (September 29, 2014)

• Did the Internet Prevent All Invention from Moving to One Place, BloomNews (May 25, 2014)

• The Internet Killed Distance. Mobile Computing Brought It Back, MIT Technology Review (Nov 6, 2013)

• The Internet Didn't Eliminate Distance, The Economist (March 15, 2011)

• Will the iPad Flatten Us All?, Financial Times (January 14, 2011)

• Revealed: The True Cost of Computer Crime, New Scientist (June 25, 2005)

• The Internet, Wage and Consumer Welfare, NBER Digest (April, 2009)

• City or Country: Where Do Businesses Use the Internet? FRBSF Economic Letter (September 03, 2004)