Is AI Taking Your Job or Changing It?

AI is changing product work fast. It can write code, accelerate research, support design decisions and remove hours of repetitive work. But is it taking your job, or changing it?
In this debate, Dana Lawson and Christina Goldschmidt take opposing sides on one of the most urgent questions facing modern product teams. One side argues that AI is reducing the need for people by collapsing roles, raising expectations and putting more pressure on fewer individuals. The other argues that AI is changing the job, not replacing it, freeing skilled practitioners to focus on judgement, taste, strategy and the work that matters most.
Moderated by Ryan Leffel, this session explores what happens as AI moves beyond programming into design, research and product decision-making, and what that means for the future of work. Will experienced product people become more valuable, or will the pressure on individuals become unsustainable? And if AI can build more and more of the product, who stays accountable for what gets made?

Key Learnings

• How AI is already reshaping work across product, design and engineering
• Why some leaders see AI as a job threat, while others see it as a job upgrade
• Where human judgement, taste and accountability still matter most
• What the future may look like as AI takes on more of the work of building products