Navigating Risks in AI Product Management
Understand how AI product managers navigate risks, prioritize responsible design, manage costs, and avoid superficial AI integration for lasting benefits and credibility.
Balancing risks and user safety
Part of the specialization that takes place in the current form of an AI product manager is knowledge of what can go wrong. Our AI features may be taking certain liberties with our customers' data, and it’s our job as product managers to anticipate the potential risks our product might create for our users. As product managers, we’re looking to address the most important business problems our users have with our product, but we’re also looking to minimize potential adverse effects.
We know we got you all jazzed up about being a fearless AI product manager only to then bring up the things we should be afraid of because we want to make a distinction. We’d rather be afraid of the potentially harmful side of AI than be afraid of the complexity of AI systems. Understanding the structure and complexity is the easy part. Making sure this complexity is handled properly is the hard part. For example, rather than ...