Google Bolsters AI & Economy Team with Nobel Laureate Philippe Aghion

Google has strengthened its AI & Economy team by welcoming three new experts to help understand and navigate the impact of artificial intelligence on economic activity worldwide.

Nobel Laureate Philippe Aghion, Professor Ajay Agrawal, and leading researchers have joined the program to expand scientific understanding of AI's effects on jobs, businesses, and everyday lives.

The team will focus on core areas including the future of work, productivity, growth, global technology diffusion, and AI's impact on scientific discovery.

Philippe Aghion, a 2025 Nobel Laureate in Economics, will apply his pioneering work on innovation-led growth to model AI's long-term macroeconomic trajectory.