Beyond Autopilot: Intentional Product Leadership in the AI Age

I’m curious for your feedback and your thoughts on my closing questions:

  • How do we maintain the human accountability that builds trust in our teams while leveraging AI's capabilities?

  • As AI becomes part of our toolkit, how do we intentionally preserve the human qualities—curiosity, humility, and deep understanding—that make collaboration effective?

  • How do we move beyond individual AI enhancement to truly collaborative human-AI teams?

  • If AI handles the legwork that traditionally built product
    sense
    , how will future product leaders develop theirs?

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Further Reading:

My blog:

Intentional Leadership: Shaping How AI serves Product Teams, not vice versa
Product Leadership in an AI-augmented PM world

Books:

Ethan Mollick: Co-Intelligence (now also in German)
Henrik Kniberg: Generative AI in a nutshell
Tomas Chamorro-Pemuzic: I, Human
Jurgen Appelo: Human Robot Agent


Blogposts / Papers:

Ethan Mollick: The Cybernetic Teammate
Christina Wodtke: When (and When Not) to Use AI in Digital Product Development
Michael Gerlich: AI Tools in Society: Impacts of Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical thinking
Brynjolfsson, Li, Raymond: Generative AI at Work
Lee et al: The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking