Harvard Professor and Forbes Future of Work-30 awardee Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury will share insights on how agentic AI, in the form of ‘codified selves’ will usher a new wave of Work-from-anywhere. Codified selves are AI Bots trained to both replicate the content and style of individual communication. Codified Selves may help individuals communicate asynchronously, participate in meetings, scaling their human capital in unprecedented ways. Raj will share both a conceptual framework around codified selves and will share experimental evidence on this topic. Notably he will share insights from his ‘Wade Bot’ study that is receiving widespread attention globally, where a Bot was trained to mimic Wade Foster, CEO of Zapier. Raj will also launch his new book ‘The World is Your Office’ at the end of this talk. The book can be pre-ordered on Amazon.
Lumry Family Associate Professor
About
Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury is the Lumry Family Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School. He was an Assistant Professor at Wharton prior to joining Harvard. He studies the Future of Work, especially the changing Geography of Work. He made the business case for ‘Work-from-
anywhere’ in a 2019 article and is the author of the article, ‘Our work-from-anywhere future’, a Finalist for the 2020 Harvard Business Review McKinsey Award. In 2023, Forbes included him in the Future of Work-50 list.
His research has been cited by BBC, Bloomberg Businessweek, CNBC, NPR All Things Considered, New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Economist, Harvard Business Review, The Independent, The World Economic Forum, Forbes, Yahoo! Finance, Freakonomics, WIRED, Axios, Nikkei Asian Review, Inc. India Today Television, NDTV among several other outlets. He earned his Doctorate from Harvard. Prior to academia, he worked at McKinsey & Company. He has advised organizations as diverse as Google, Atlassian, ITC, Young Presidents Organization, Deloitte, Cactus,
the Council on Foreign Relations, the British Parliament and the United Nations, on the Future of Work.
