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## Segment 2 — futures

## Article 84 — a084

# Joshua Gans

## Joshua Gans

**Role in source:** cited authority on AI economics. Economist and co-author of *[[entity-prediction-machines|Prediction Machines]]* (with [[entity-ajay-agrawal|Ajay Agrawal]] and [[entity-avi-goldfarb|Avi Goldfarb]]). HBR invokes his framework to explain why cheaper prediction can *increase* the value of human judgment.

### Attributed contributions in this vault
- Co-source of the [[concept-complementarity|complementarity]] argument central to the article's thesis.

> Enrichment canonical identity: economist and coauthor of *Prediction Machines*.