Finding signal in the AI noise, with ‘Me, Myself and AI’ host Sam Ransbotham
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4.4 • 116 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
What's the real value in AI tools — and what separates those who use them well from those who don't? Sam Ransbotham, professor of business analytics at Boston College and host of the "Me, Myself and AI" podcast from MIT Sloan Management Review, compares notes with GeekWire Podcast host Todd Bishop in a two-part collaboration between the shows.
On this episode, they discuss the new digital divide emerging in the classroom, AI's measurement problem (and what Wikipedia teaches us about it), the "race to mediocre," how AI is democratizing startup creation, and the tension between AI productivity, time, and the moments that make us human.
Find the rest of their conversation in the Me, Myself and AI podcast feed.
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| 0:00.0 | Sam, one of my favorite things to do is to do a little bit of deep research. |
| 0:07.1 | It's kind of like the podcast version of This Is Your Life. |
| 0:10.4 | In this case, I will admit, I will admit, I got a little bit of help from perplexity, AI. |
| 0:15.2 | So how do you see your research from back then relating to what's happening with AI today? |
| 0:20.9 | Wow. And then after you answer that, I want you to grade the question from perplexity. |
| 0:24.3 | That's beautiful. |
| 0:31.7 | Welcome to the Geekwire podcast. |
| 0:33.8 | I'm Geekwire co-founder Todd Bishop. |
| 0:36.0 | This episode is part of a collaboration between the |
| 0:39.3 | Geekwire podcast and me, myself, and AI. That's a podcast from MIT Sloan Management Review |
| 0:46.6 | that explores the future of artificial intelligence. I connected a few months ago with the show's |
| 0:52.6 | producer, Alison Ryder, and its host, Sam Ransbatham, and on this episode, I connected a few months ago with the show's producer, Alison Ryder, and its host, Sam Ransbatham, |
| 0:56.9 | and on this episode I get to compare notes with Sam, who's a professor of analytics at Boston |
| 1:02.3 | College, who's been researching data, analytics, and AI at MIT Sloan Management Review |
| 1:08.7 | for more than a decade. |
| 1:13.6 | Sam and I share takeaways from our podcasts and our own observations on some of the emerging trends |
| 1:17.0 | and long-term implications of AI. |
| 1:19.6 | This is part of a two-part series across our two podcasts. |
| 1:23.5 | If you want to hear more after you're done listening here, |
| 1:26.2 | look for me, myself, and AI from |
| 1:28.5 | MIT Sloan Management Review for the rest of our conversation. You can also find a link in the show |
| 1:34.2 | notes on this episode of the Geekwire podcast. I started by asking Sam to give us the basics on |
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