The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence

“The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence” with Avi Goldfarb

Professor Avi Goldfarb is the Rotman Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare and a professor of marketing at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Artificial intelligence technology is likely to be the next general purpose technology, with potential to have an outsized impact on productivity and our standard of living. As with electricity and the internet, this impact depends on redesigning systems, rather than inserting AI into existing processes. Economic models of the implications of these changes on existential risk, jobs, inequality, market power, and misinformation point to where ambiguity lies and where it does not.

Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Time: 11:45am – 1:00pm

Location: Uris Hall Room 107, Morningside Campus, Columbia University

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