About the Contributors

AJAY AGRAWAL is the Peter Munk Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is founder of the Creative Destruction Lab, cofounder of The Next AI, and cofounder of Kindred. He is the coauthor of Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence (Harvard Business Review Press, 2018).

SCOTT BERINATO is a senior editor at Harvard Business Review and the author of Good Charts: The HBR Guide to Making Smarter, More Persuasive Data Visualizations (Harvard Business Review Press, 2016) and Good Charts Workbook: Tips, Tools, and Exercises for Making Better Data Visualizations (Harvard Business Review Press, 2019).

ERIK BRYNJOLFSSON is the director of MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy, the Schussel Family Professor of Management Science at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a research associate at NBER. He is the author of several books, including, with Andrew McAfee, Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future (2017) and the New York Times bestseller The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (2014). Follow him on Twitter @erikbryn.

JOAQUIN CANDELA is director of Applied Machine Learning at Facebook.

PAUL DAUGHERTY is Accenture’s chief technology and innovation officer. He is a coauthor, with H. James Wilson, of Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI (Harvard Business Review Press, 2018).

CHASE DAVENPORT is a San Francisco–based technology researcher.

THOMAS H. DAVENPORT is the President’s Distinguished Professor in Management and Information Technology at Babson College, a research fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and a senior adviser at Deloitte Analytics. He is the author of over a dozen management books, most recently Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines (2016) and The AI Advantage (2018).

JOSHUA GANS is the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and serves as chief economist in the Creative Destruction Lab. He is the coauthor of Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence (Harvard Business Review Press, 2018) and the author of The Disruption Dilemma (2016).

AVI GOLDFARB is the Ellison Professor of Marketing at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, chief data scientist at the Creative Destruction Lab, and senior editor at Marketing Science. He is a coauthor of Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence (Harvard Business Review Press, 2018).

SOPHIE KLEBER is the executive creative director at Huge, where she creates future-forward user experiences to help transform businesses and shape the way we use technology. She is a thought leader in the future of design, has written on behalf of TED, and speaks regularly at SXSW.

MARK KNICKREHM is group chief executive for Accenture Strategy.

VIKRAM MAHIDHAR is the leader of artificial intelligence business at Genpact. He was an entrepreneur and built the AI solutions business at Rage Framework (acquired by Genpact).

EMMA MARTINHO-TRUSWELL is the cofounder and chief operating officer of Oxford Insights, which advises organizations on the strategic, cultural, and leadership opportunities from digital transformation and artificial intelligence.

ANDREW MCAFEE, a principal research scientist at MIT, studies how digital technologies are changing business, the economy, and society. With Erik Brynjolfsson, he coauthored Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future (2017) and The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (2014), which was a New York Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. Follow him on Twitter @amcafee.

ANDREW NG is the founder and CEO of Landing AI, the former VP and chief scientist of Baidu, cochairman and cofounder of Coursera, the founder and former lead of Google Brain, and an adjunct professor at Stanford University.

H. JAMES WILSON is a managing director of information technology and business research at Accenture Research. Follow him on Twitter @hjameswilson. He is a coauthor, with Paul Daugherty, of Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI (Harvard Business Review Press, 2018).

ROMAN V. YAMPOLSKIY is a tenured associate professor in the department of computer engineering and computer science at the Speed School of Engineering, University of Louisville. He is the founding and current director of the university’s cybersecurity lab and an author of many books, including Artificial Superintelligence: A Futuristic Approach (2015). Follow him on Twitter @romanyam.

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