Modern CTO MIT Sloan’s Guide to Navigating a New Age of AI, with Sam Ransbotham, Host of the Me, Myself and AI Podcast
Dec 15, 2025
Sam Ransbotham, AI editor at MIT Sloan Management Review and host of the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, delves into the evolving relationship between humans and AI. He highlights that 76% of executives now consider AI as coworkers rather than tools. Sam discusses the challenges of outdated healthcare privacy laws in the age of advanced AI and presents insights on how cheaper coding is predicted to create programming jobs. The conversation also explores the implications of agentic AI adoption and the future of organizational design.
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AI Becoming A Teammate
- Agentic AI is shifting systems from being mere tools toward behaving more like independent coworkers.
- This transition requires rethinking management, measurement, and organizational roles.
Be Intentional With Research Design
- Design surveys and research intentionally to capture nuance instead of fixing problems after the fact.
- Spend time crafting questions because survey design remains a craft that shapes results.
Revisit 1996 Healthcare Privacy Tradeoffs
- Healthcare privacy laws from 1996 assumed limited gains from data sharing and must be re-evaluated.
- Modern algorithms show increasing returns to more healthcare data, especially for underrepresented subgroups.
