Brijesh Deb's Webinar Question

To it means, upskill, embrace the inevitable, and adapt it. Make AI your ally and assistant, and don’t allow it to run over you. 

To me ‘taking the seat at the table’ means actively shaping the future of my work alongside AI, rather than being sidelined by it.

In my role, it’s about leveraging AI to enhance decision-making, streamline processes, and focus on higher-impact tasks, while staying curious, ethical, and creative. It’s not about competing with AI :it’s about collaborating with it to amplify human potential.

AI still need Human perspective, so yes align and ride with it . Make it do all the menial tasks and free up time for exploratory tasks / creative tasks and innovative tasks. I will take the seat and let AI be my worker whom i supervise

‘Taking the seat’ for me means reducing the fear and taking back my power from AI through learning, understanding and integrating AI into my teams. 

The empty chair metaphor asks: will you take your seat at the table or give it away to AI? What does “taking the seat” mean to you in your role?

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For my role of a leader “taking the seat” mean, I will leverage AI’s speed in my leadership’s responsibilities whether it is decision making, setting up the directions, mentoring my team. However, I will definitely keeping and challenging the AI’s accuracy in mind instead of it deriving my decisions or way of work. Thanks!

Use AI for your advantage. Create more tools and automate some of the process that you work on now and take control of the seat.

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For me,

taking the seat means being more than just a tester of code, 

I want to be the person who ensures that as we integrate AI into our workflows, we don’t lose sight of reliability, ethics, and user trust. I’m not giving my seat away to AI — I’m inviting it to sit beside me, so I can guide it with human judgment. My role isn’t shrinking; it’s evolving. And I’m ready to lead that evolution.

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Taking the seat means; actively shaping how AI fits into my role instead of passively giving decisions away to it.

For me, it’s about owning product quality, using AI to accelerate repetitive work while applying my human judgment in areas like strategy, risk assessment, and user empathy. It’s stepping up to guide the team, set guardrails, and ensure AI enhances rather than replaces expertise.

In short, it’s leading with accountability, not ceding control.

Think of AI as a very fast, clever assistant — not a decision-maker. Taking the seat means being the one who asks the good questions, judges answers, and accepts responsibility for the consequences.

For me, "taking the seat" means embracing the "Use, Question, Lead" playbook.

So, I'm not giving my seat away. I'm upgrading it. The chair is still mine, but it's now the captain's chair on the bridge, complete with a powerful AI co-pilot. "Taking my seat" means proving that a tester's true value isn't just finding bugs, but in orchestrating the entire quality conversation with wisdom and judgment that, for now, remains uniquely human.