Key takeaway
AI removes the blank page. It does not, and should not, remove the PM's judgment call.
Starting a new project from a blank page is one of the more tedious parts of the job, not because it is hard, but because so much of it is boilerplate: writing out an obvious scope statement, listing the milestones any project like this one would have, naming the risks anyone with experience could guess before the kickoff call. That is exactly the kind of first draft AI is good at.
The genuinely useful part
Describe a project in a couple of sentences, or hand over a brief, a proposal, or a slide deck someone already wrote, and a first pass at scope, out of scope, milestones, risks and dependencies can be drafted in seconds instead of an hour of staring at a blank document. That is real time saved, and it removes the blank-page problem, which is often the actual barrier to getting a project properly set up in the first place instead of started informally in someone's inbox.
What it is not for
AI does not know your client, your team's real capacity, or the political reality of why a stakeholder needs to see a particular milestone by a particular date. It cannot decide what the project should actually deliver. A draft is a starting point for the PM to correct, not a plan to accept as written. The value is not that the AI is right, it is that editing a draft is much faster than writing one from nothing.
The useful pattern is simple: let AI remove the blank page, keep every decision about what actually goes into the project with the person who understands it.