New RIBA president urges architects to meet AI challenge ‘head on’

By Tom Lowe2025-09-01T12:33:00

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Chris Williamson has used his first day as the new RIBA president to urge architects to meet the challenge posed to the profession by AI “head on”.

Williamson said the rapid development of AI was a “significant and impactful transformation” but called for architects to “deploy this technology to our benefit”.

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