# Professor Vasant Dhar is interviewed for a feature story on the growing importance of AI for firms

1 Faculty News December 26, 2017 ![](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_033999.jpg?itok=Bv-JUpCu)>

Excerpt from [InformationWeek](https://www.informationweek.com/big-data/ai-machine-learning/is-it-time-for-your-organization-to-invest-in-ai/d/d-id/1330683) -- "[Vasant Dhar](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/vasant-dhar), a professor at New York University's' Stern School of Business, stated that AI can be put to work wherever data exists. 'It could be for customer service, marketing, planning, gathering new customers or assets,' he explained."

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