What’s Real, What’s Not: Human-Led Precincts Have the Edge in Age of AI

Focusing on place and what makes us human will be crucial in the emergent era of AI, the development sector has been warned.

At The Urban Developer’s flagship Urbanity-26 conference on the Gold Coast, Cadre Australia director Chris Tyas said true place-making started with listening to the land—sitting in silence, observing the sun and natural and prevailing rhythms before designing.

“I think at the dawn of a new industrial revolution, being AI, we don’t know what’s real and what’s fake,” he told at a panel session on human-led precincts.