Fighting Financial Fraud with AI: Insights from Sudhir Jha at Stanford

At The Business and Economics of AI, a Stanford/Infosys AI Workshop held on May 14, 2025, Sudhir Jha—a senior transformational leader, AI entrepreneur, and former Mastercard executive—shares how AI is redefining fraud detection in financial services. Drawing on over two decades in technology and leadership roles at Google and Mastercard, he explains why fraud is an ideal use case for AI, how enterprises can rapidly scale from data to value, and why ROI is both tangible and immediate. He also reflects on insights from the workshop, including shifts in software productivity and the vital role of academia-industry collaboration in accelerating enterprise AI innovation.