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AI for Business Leaders track

Understand where AI creates value and risk, and how to lead its adoption.

4 steps7 books3 course shelvesFor executives, product leaders and technologists

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A practical view of working with AI and the economics of prediction.

Prediction Machines

Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans & Avi Goldfarb

Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb apply basic economics to artificial intelligence, treating it as a technology that makes prediction cheaper. They explore how that affects decisions, business strategy and jobs, and why human judgement gains in value. For managers weighing AI adoption.

Build the skills

Leading AI adoption and what changes when prediction becomes cheap.

Power and Prediction

Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans & Avi Goldfarb

Argues that artificial intelligence is best understood as cheaper prediction, and that its biggest gains come when organisations rebuild whole systems and decisions around it rather than adding tools to existing processes. Useful for executives judging where AI will change their industry.

Go deeper

The wider consequences of the technology, and how product teams build what customers want.

The Coming Wave

Mustafa Suleyman & Michael Bhaskar

Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar argue that advances in artificial intelligence and synthetic biology are arriving together as a wave of powerful technologies that will be hard to contain. They discuss the risks and what governments and companies might do about them.

Inspired

Marty Cagan

Marty Cagan explains how strong technology companies discover and build products that customers want and that work for the business, with emphasis on the role of product managers and the structure of product teams. Useful for product leaders and anyone building software products.

Put it to work

Identify one process, product or decision where the idea could create measurable value.

This week: Identify one process, product or decision where the idea could create measurable value.