Press and Excerpts
Recognition | TV & Radio | Webinars | Reviews | Excerpts | Articles | Podcasts
Recognition and acclaim for The AI Playbook
A Next Big Idea Club Must Read | A Tech Tribune best tech book of the week | A #1 Amazon category bestseller
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“An antidote to overheated rhetoric of all-powerful AI... helpfully lays out the key steps to deploying the technology we’re now all obsessed with.” —Fast Company
“Separates AI fact from AI fantasy.” —The Forecast
“The Rosetta Stone for translating / facilitating the conversation between biz and data teams.” —Vaclav Vincalek
“A crucial guide... every successful project should go through the steps suggested by Siegel.” —Myles Suer
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To see recognition and awards for Eric Siegel's other book, Predictive Analytics, click here.
TV & Radio appearances about The AI Playbook
Bloomberg Radio: Businessweek, 2/6/2024: The AI Playbook
Big Think, 08/14/2024: Generative AI vs. Predictive AI
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KPCW/NPR: Cool Science Radio, 2/8/2024: February 8, 2024
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DM Radio, 1/18/2024: Great Expectations? Focus on Practical AI
School for Startups Radio, 3/1/2024: Machine Learning Dr. Eric Siegel and Digital Marketing TJ Murphy
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CCTV, 7/26/2024: A Conversation with Eric Siegel
Webinars about The AI Playbook (on demand)
MIT Sloan Management Review - How to Succeed With Predictive AI
Harvard Business Review - Putting Predictive Analytics to Work
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International Institute for Analytics (IIA) - Unlocking Machine Learning Success: The BizML Approach
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More videos:
Reviews of The AI Playbook
Barbara Oakley, author of A Mind for Numbers and co-instructor of Coursera’s Learning How to Learn
Myles Suer, The Data Administration
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Vijay Mehrotra, Analytics Magazine
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Beth Stackpole, MIT Sloan's Ideas Made to Matter
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James Taylor, Everything Decision Management
Ben Dickson, TechTalks
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Jason Gilbertson, "demystifying data science" blog
Yong Xune Xon, PhD, The Machine Learning Times
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Martin Zwilling, Forbes
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Tim Dickson, Regal Rexnord
Vaclav Vincalek, Recurrent Patterns
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Matthew Novak, The Book Commentary
Sumi Singh, LinkedIn Top AI Voice
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Isaac Oh, OnlineBookClub.org
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Kate Strachnyi, DATAcated
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Troy Hiltbrand, Pulse
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Eric Sigel, Pulse
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Ericka Nichols, Medium
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Benyawarath Nithithanatchinnapat​, Gannon University
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Andy Hutchings (and 3 others), Readers' Favorite
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Click here for endorsements from Scott Galloway, Charles Duhigg, Mustafa Suleyman, DJ Patil, and many more.
Excerpts from The AI Playbook
Harvard Business Review, 1/23/2024: Getting Machine Learning Projects from Idea to Execution
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MIT Sloan Management Review, 2/7/2024: What Leaders Should Know About Measuring AI Project Value ​(read it in Polish)
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BigThink, 2/12/2024: Effective machine learning needs leadership—not AI hype
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Built In, 2/6/2024: How to Sell a Machine Learning Project
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The European Business Review, 3/21/2024: Where FICO Gets Its Data for Screening Two-Thirds of All Card Transactions (formatted PDF from magazine)
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InsideBIGDATA, 3/25/24: The Data Disconnect: A Key Challenge for Machine Learning Deployment
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Harvard Data Science Review, 04/27/2023: To Deploy ML, You Must Manage Operational Change - Here Is How UPS Got It Right (pre-dates the book, but included therein)
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Built In, 05/22/2024: Predictive AI Streamlines Operations In This Surprisingly Simple Way
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Scientific American, 2/20/2019: Accuracy Fallacy: The Media's Coverage of AI Is Bogus (pre-dates the book, but included therein) – version not behind a paywall
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Next Big Idea Club, 3/30/2024: Five Insights from The AI Playbook (includes audio narration; not an excerpt, but a book overview by the author)
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Book forward by Morgan Vawter, Unilever: The Machine Learning Times, 04/02/2024: Three Best Practices for Unilever’s Global Analytics Initiatives
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Built In, 7/12/2024: 4 Ways Machine Learning Can Perpetuate Injustice and What to Do About It
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Book FAQ (what it's about and who it’s for - see also the Portuguese translation)
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Audiobook PDF (includes all figures)
Articles by the author and about The AI Playbook
For the most recent Forbes articles by Eric Siegel, click here.
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Fast Company, 1/5/2024: Today’s AI won’t radically transform society, but it’s already reshaping business
Harvard Business Review, 1/23/2024: Getting Machine Learning Projects from Idea to Execution
Harvard Business Review, 06/02/2023: The AI Hype Cycle Is Distracting Companies
MIT Sloan Management Review, 2/7/2024: What Leaders Should Know About Measuring AI Project Value
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MIT Sloan Management Review, 7/2/2024: The Six Most Popular Stories of 2024 — So Far
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KDnuggets, 1/8/2024: Survey: Machine Learning Projects Still Routinely Fail to Deploy
Fast Company, 2/15/2024: Try this 5-point plan to successfully launch the world’s most important technology at your company
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Forbes, 3/4/2024: 3 Ways Predictive AI Delivers More Value Than Generative AI
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Forbes, 3/25/2024: AI Success Depends On How You Choose This One Number
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BigThink, 2/12/2024: Effective machine learning needs leadership—not AI hype
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Built In, 2/6/2024: How to Sell a Machine Learning Project
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Forbes, 4/1/2024: 6 Steps To Capitalize On AI In Your Business
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MIT Sloan's Ideas Made to Matter, 6/20/2024: The AI Playbook: 6 steps for launching predictive AI projects
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SUCCESS Magazine, 6/20/2024: The Trailblazer’s Toolkit: 7 Best Tech Tool for Innovators
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Outthinkers, 7/11/2024: Outthinker Networks’ 2024 Strategy & Innovation Summer Reading List
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The Machine Learning Times, 1/30/2024: A University Curriculum Supplement to Teach a Business Framework for ML Deployment
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Blogging on Business, 2/21/2024: What Leaders Should Know About Measuring AI Project Value
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UVA McIntire, 5/10/2024: 2024 Knowledge ∞ Continuum at UVA - Recap
LA Times, 1/2/2024: What AI will bring in 2024: 4 predictions
The Globe & Mail, 2/12/2024: To find gold in the AI hills, leaders must responsibly manage it
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 3/1/2024: AI Will Shake Up Higher Ed. Are Colleges Ready?
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Next Big Idea Club, 1/31/2024: How Tech and Business Are Shaping the Future, According to 5 New Books
BusinessNews, 1/31/2024: How tech and business are shaping the future, according to 5 new books
BusinessNews, 1/31/2024: 5 Guidelines to Successfully Launching Machine Learning in Your Business
ZDNet, 2/28/2024: Data scientists: Still the sexiest job - if anyone would just listen to them
SAP Insights, 1/12/2024: A Playbook for Machine Learning Projects That Work
RTInsights.com, 3/31/2024: It’s Time to Stop Treating Predictive Analytics as Data Science Projects
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AI Insider, 8/8/2024: What Makes Predictive AI The Holy Grail for Large-scale Operations?
DataCamp, 2/5/2024: Why ML Projects Fail, and How to Ensure Success with Eric Siegel, Founder of Machine Learning Week, Former Columbia Professor, and Bestselling Author
The CTO Club, 3/13/2024: The Overhype of Generative AI: A Q&A with Dr. Eric Siegel
LinkedIn, Data Driven HR Monthly, 3/3/2024: The best HR & People Analytics articles of February 2024
Barbara Oakley, 1/26/2024: The AI Playbook
The Forecast, 1/19/2024: Author Eric Siegel Separates AI Fact from AI Fantasy
TechTalks, 2/5/2024: How to Succeed in Applied Machine Learning
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Leadership Today, 2/6/2024: Find the Magical Balance: Interview with Dr. Eric Siegel, Author of the AI Playbook
5 Books, 2/4/2024: The best books on Machine Learning
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TDAN, 1/17/2024: The AI Playbook: Providing Important Reminders to Data Professionals
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SQL Server Books, 3/3/2024: Data Analytics And Insights
AI Washing, Tom Fishburne, Marketoonist, January 28, 2024
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Five Ways to Acquire AI as a Skill in HR, Dirk Petersen, myHRfuture, February 16, 2024
On Culture: Leading with Purpose -> Ethical Leadership and Innovation, Myste Wylde, Pulse, February 23, 2024
5 CEO Insights & 5 Upcoming Introductions, IVY, February 25, 2024
How will AI transform the role of HR?, David Green, Pulse, February 24, 2024
Which Flavour of AI Delivers More Value – Predictive or Generative?, Dan French, Consider Solutions, March 8, 2024
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Architecting An AI Solution, Myles Suer, The AI Journal, April 19, 2024
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What AI Means to Small Businesses, Terri Williams, Next Avenue, July 1, 2024
AI Deployment, Development and Other Issues in the Insurance Industry, Stewart Bowling, Digital Insurance, March 18, 2024
Predictive AI: A Business-Centric Approach, Alfredo Passos, Pulse, March 28, 2024
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Is AI ushering in a new era of media management?, Hannah Algar, The AI Journal, May 12, 2024
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The Generative AI Hype Is Almost Over. What’s Next?, Christian Stadler, Forbes, September 6, 2024
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Press regarding Eric Siegel's previous book, Predictive Analytics
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Articles/videos by the author on analytics and social justice
Podcast appearances with the author of The AI Playbook
Listen to the author's own podcast, The Dr. Data Show with Eric Siegel
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Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson, 3/22/2023: Predictions: Seeing the Future
Motley Fool Money, 1/29/2024: Roomba Go Home
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American Banker, 2/13/2024: ‘Don’t fall for the sales pitches’: Advice on deploying AI
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Next Big Idea Club, 03/30/2024: Five Insights from The AI Playbook
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Digital HR Leaders Podcast with David Green, 2/6/2024: How to Overcome AI Adoption Challenges in HR (Interview with Eric Siegel)
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Nasdaq, 2/5/2024: What’s Next for iRobot?
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New Money Review, 2/6/2024: Bringing AI back to Earth
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Yahoo! Finance, 2/5/2024: What’s Next for iRobot?
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DataFramed, 2/5/2024: Why ML Projects Fail, and How to Ensure Success with Eric Siegel, Founder of Machine Learning Week, Former Columbia Professor, and Bestselling Author
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Office Hours with David Meltzer, 2/25/2024: Dr. Eric Siegel
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Leveraging Thought Leadership, 2/8/2024: Unleashing Predictive Power | Eric Siegel
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The Agile Brand with Greg Kihlstrom, 2/25/2024: Machine learning in the enterprise with Eric Siegel
Winning with Data, 1/30/2024: Eric Siegel: The Myths and Potential of Machine Learning Operations
The Stakeholder Podcast, 1/30/2024: Eric Siegel
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The Keynote Curators Podcast, 02/05/2024: What's the Secret to Leveraging Big Data? with Eric Siegel
UVA Data Points, 02/06/2024: The AI Playbook | A Conversation with Eric Siegel
Maverick Actuary, 02/15/2024: Predictive Analytics - Part 2
Beyond the Arc, 02/07/2024: Eric Siegel on bizML and The AI Playbook
Kevin Lockett Podcast, 03/20/2024: Unpacking The AI Playbook With Eric Siegel
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UNmiss, 1/31/2024: Navigating AI with Eric Siegel
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International Business Forecasting (IBF), 2/5/2024: Decoding BizML: A Candid Talk with Eric Siegel
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The TKC Podcast, 2/5/2024: What’s the Secret to Leveraging Big Data? With Eric
Digital Transformation Podcast, 2/5/2024: The Art of Machine Learning Deployment
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The Marketing Book Podcast, 2/9/2024: The AI Playbook: Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Deployment by Eric Siegel
Bridging the Gaps, 2/11/2024: “The AI Playbook: Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Deployment” with Eric Siegel
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AI and the Future of Work, 2/12/2024: Dr. Eric Siegel, Founder of Machine Learning Week, on 6 steps to usher in successful ML projects
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AI-Curious, 2/9/2024: The (hype-free) AI Playbook for Machine Learning, with Eric Siegel
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Agile Digital Transformation, 2/15/2024: Eric Siegel - Are we headed towards an AI winter?
The Machine Learning Podcast, 2/18/2024: Improve the Success Rate of Your Machine Learning Projects with bizML
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Machine Learning in the Sciences, 1/20/2024: Predictive Analytics, Business, and Government with Eric Siegel
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Forecasting Impact Podcast (Institute on Forecasting), 1/23/2024: Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Deployment with Eric Siegel
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Data Science Leaders Podcast, 1/31/2024: Mastering the Rare Art of ML Deployment
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Digital Communicators (The Babel podcast), 11/23/2023: Eric Siegel, Machine Learning Expert, Speaks With Babel Director Simon Coughlin
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DataChats, Pragmatic Institute, 11/17/2023: Bridging the Gap Between Data Science and Business
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Mining Your Own Business, 11/1/2023: Deploying Machine Learning for Real Results with Eric Siegel
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The Unified Leadership Institute, 10/20/2023: The AI Revolution
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What's Up with Tech?, 04/01/2024: AI Across Disciplines: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Machine Learning
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DisrupTV, 04/05/2024: Paul Daugherty and Eric Siegel
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Information Security Forum Podcast, 04/08/2024: The AI Playbook: Leveraging machine learning to grow your business
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WiseTalk podcast, 3/26/2024, The Business-Side Execution of AI
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Sarder TV, 4/19/2024, Eric Siegel (Bestselling Author & Founder of Machine Learning Week)
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Money Isn't Everything, 5/30/2024, Antidotes to AI Hype
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Funnel Reboot, 06/7/2024, The AI Playbook, with Eric Siegel
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Our Best Behavior, 4/25/2024, Bridging the Gap: The AI Playbook with Eric Siegel
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BRITE Ideas (Columbia Business School), 6/13/24, Don't lose the AI predictive forest for the genAI trees with Eric Siegel
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unSILOed Podcast, 7/8/24, Aligning Data Science and Machine Learning for Business Success
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STRAIGHTTALK with Af, 7/18/2024, What makes Predictive AI so Exciting? With Eric Siegel
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GroundBreakers by Shorooq Partners, 9/1/2024, The AI Playbook: Turning Hype Into Concrete Value
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The Ignite Podcast, 9/16/2024, Machine Learning Week Founder Eric Siegel on AI’s Limitations and Potential