Leadership and Accountability in an AI World (podcast with Gil)
Three of the dozen issues Gil discussed on a recent Product Fields podcast episode:
“AI amplifies habits, both good ones and bad ones.”
“Don’t abdicate thinking to the machine.”
“Your team members didn’t enter tech to babysit AI.”
These statements sound obvious… until you look closely at the patterns that emerge as AI becomes part of the workflow.
Jim Sammons and Rich Visotcky invited Gil to be their first guest of 2026, and we had a wide-ranging conversation about leadership, accountability, and professional judgment in an AI-enabled world. Among other things, we explored:
- why smart professionals sometimes trust AI blindly
- the vicious cycle of over-reliance on it
- what leaders must still own when machines do part of the work
- where judgment is being replaced rather than supported
If you wonder what AI is really changing in your organization, you may find the discussion useful.