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Are we managing AI, or is AI managing us?

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Sayed Zaidi Kashif Mekhdi Architect Projects Engineer| Kuwait Oil Company Salmiya, KU, Kuwait

As Project Management Professionals, our core job is navigating change, mitigating risk, and driving efficiency. Right now, Artificial Intelligence is reshaping all three at lightning speed.

I want to open up the floor to this amazing community:

  1. The Excitement: What AI capabilities are you most thrilled about? (Predictive scheduling? Automated risk assessment? Instant status reporting?)
  2. The Toolkit: Which specific AI tool or feature has actually earned a permanent spot in your daily workflow? (actually works)

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The Fear: What keeps you up at night? (Data privacy concerns? Loss of the human touch in leadership? Job displacement?)

Whether you are fully automating your PMO or just cautiously experimenting with basic prompts, your insights matter

Please share your experiences with AI in your work. What tools do you recommend? Do you have any fears or concerns about using AI? Your ideas will help us understand how AI is changing project management and different tasks in our daily life.
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Aaron Porter
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IT Director| Blade HQ Payson, UT, United States
AI reminds me of the quote by G. Michael Hopf - "Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And weak men create hard times."

My biggest short-term concern is data privacy - shadow AI, user error, and API & third-party app hacks (a plug-in is an easier target than a data center). Long-term, I'm more concerned about the loss of knowledge and tenacity that can come from people getting used to having the answers handed to them.

Instead of recommending specific tools, I recommend that you start by finding and using tools that fit/enhance your workflow and help you solve the problems you are facing. It's possible that there's a game-changer out there that will disrupt your workflow and lead to new patterns of success, but that's almost never as simple as just using a new tool.

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