AI, Product, and Uncertainty with Chris Butler (1/2)

This discussion also explores the context around which we collect data, polysocial reality, design individualism, and contextual integrity. (Yes, we covered a lot of ground in just 45 minutes.)

Because of our tight schedule, Chris and Q had to stop before they could get to their second topic. That’s why Chris will be back in the next episode to talk about communal computing and what that means for AI.

bio: Chris Butler is a product manager, writer, and speaker with over 20 years of product management leadership at Microsoft, Waze, KAYAK, and Facebook Reality Labs. He facilitates critical decision making for teams that build new and innovative products and created techniques like Empathy Mapping for the Machine and Confusion Mapping to create cross-team alignment while building AI products.

He is now Assistant Vice President, Head of Product Operations, at Cognizant where he PM’s the PM experience.Learn more about Chris and his work through his Linkedin, Twitter, by reading some of his articles on Medium or watching some of his past talks on YouTube.

• Article: “Our Favorite Questions”
• Chris’s Product Mindset talk from Cognizant Softvision Product Day
• Chris’s Prototyping for AI/ML at the AI for PMs Summit
• At the end, we mentioned Chris’s articles on communal computing. You can read these to get a head start on our next episode:
• Communal Computing intro
• Communal Computing’s Many Problems
• A Way Forward with Communal Computing
• AIxDesign Communal Computing workshop with animistic design mapping