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Is AI Replacing Project Managers or Making Them More Powerful?

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Syed Ashir Riaz
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With the rise of AI tools, many routine project management tasks, such as planning, reporting, and risk tracking, are becoming automated.

Do you think AI will replace project managers, or will it enhance their role and make them more strategic?

What skills should PMs focus on today to stay relevant in an AI-driven world?
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Gwenola Michaud
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Project Manager & Advisor| Geosciences & Monitoring Consulting Milano, Italy
Definitely make them more powerful.

This being said, the "Project Manager" as we know it is evolving. The 2026 project manager is not the same as the 2006 or 1986 one! We are part of this evolution, knowing that the 2046 project managers will be also different than us.
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Lissette Indhira Pimentel Sosa
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Program Manager| HARPER SRL Santo Domingo / Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic
I really think it’s making PMs more powerful, but also raising expectations.
AI can take over routine tasks, but it also pushes us to focus more on judgment, decision-making, and stakeholder alignment. The role is shifting, not disappearing.
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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
We are using AI from more than 40 years ago in our daily work like PMs. Most of the time without notice it because the AI is included in the tools we use in our daily work. With that said, generative AI has bring to people attention the use of AI. AI is a tool. No more than that. "Human in the loop" is the basement of AI. What is clear is that PMs that do not know how to use generative AI will have in trouble to find new job opportunities.
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Alex Kondor United States
I don’t see it replacing PMs. It reduces the manual parts of the job, which actually puts more weight on decision-making and stakeholder alignment. The value shifts from managing tasks to managing outcomes, which is harder to automate.
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Frank Spiegel Senior Projectmanager, PMP, PMI-ACP| Commerzbank AG Oberursel, Germany
The projects managers role is not only about Management. It is also about Leadership. The Management part will be reduced by AI capabilities. The leadership part needs human judgement, empathy, critical thinking, ideation and reflecation.
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Robert London Project & Risk Consultant, and Career Coach (PMP, RMP, CSM, CSP,CCC, MSIE| CoffeeCat Solutions, LLC DC/VA/MD Area, United States
The PM role and tasks of the PM will significantly change as AI is used for planning and tracking project progress. If you want to try something interesting, ask GenAI how the PM role will change due to GenAI. It's a bit of an eye-opener. It's one of the first prompts I use when training PM and project teams to use GenAI for risk management.

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