Over the past year, the exponential proliferation of artificial intelligence–powered technologies has turned an anxious whisper into a blaring claxon of existential crisis. In a March 2023 report, Goldman Sachs predicted that AI could replace as many as 300 million jobs across all industries globally and estimated that 37 percent of tasks within architecture and engineering could be automated by AI. And while some architects are embracing it with open arms, others warn of AI’s troubling ethical implications and the threat it poses to the profession. Both predictions ring true: AI is both a tool and a crisis, and much may depend on how, and how quickly, practitioners can adapt.
This sea change is playing out in architecture schools, where educators are grappling with how to incorporate AI into curricula even as the technology continues to evolve at breakneck speed. Preparing students for architecture after AI means addressing ethical issues around plagiarism, intellectual property, and privacy, and at the same time facing its potential impact on the labor market.
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