AI-powered automation is transforming incident response by freeing up human teams to focus on high-impact tasks, ultimately improving the experience for stakeholders, SREs, and users during system outages. At a PagerDuty event, industry leaders highlighted the benefits of AI in context-gathering, stakeholder communications, and enhancing user experience. Automation reduces the time SREs spend on manual tasks by quickly providing relevant data, allowing them to resolve issues more efficiently, which reduces mean time to restore (MTTR) and minimizes the financial and reputational impacts of outages. AI also tailors communications for different stakeholders, ensuring everyone receives timely and appropriate updates without overburdening the technical teams. This approach not only enhances the user experience by fostering trust and reducing downtime but also allows organizations to focus more on strategic interactions and personalized customer engagement, thereby strengthening relationships and increasing revenue potential.