Media
Artificial Intelligence
How companies can ready their teams to harness the power of AI, Financial Post (July 29, 2024)
Leading Books: veja as escolhas da equipa editorial na área de Tech, Lider (July 5, 2024)
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)