AI: ‘amazing innovation’, ‘alarming inevitability’ or ‘armageddon imminent’?

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Martha Tsigkari of Foster + Partners says that architecture will not survive merely by architects asserting their ‘value’.

So what do we mean by ‘values’ in an AI-inspired culture? Indeed, what do we even mean by human agency in an AI-dominated world? Already it is reshaping design, information and decision-making faster than was imagined just a few years ago. Some suggest that it is destabilising education and eroding critical thinking; others suggest that it will lead to a democratisation of knowledge and a more skilled workforce.

This session will explore AI’s positive potential – from creative augmentation to rapid iterations and efficiency gains – as well as the deskilling and disruptive risks it poses to the profession and the wider construction industry. It might also touch on the data-centre energy infrastructure required to keep the show on the road in the first place.

Expect candid discussions on authorship, creativity, liability, and the kind of architect (or non-architect) who will thrive or perish in an AI-augmented future.

SPEAKERS:

Shajay Bhooshan associate director at ZHA, co-founder and lead, ZHA Computation and Design group (ZHA CODE)

Lord Kulveer Ranger of Northwood vice-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Artificial Intelligence

Dr Juliana Martins programme director, MPlan City Planning, Bartlett School of Planning; and co-leader of the Association of European Schools of Planning Task Force AI in Planning.