Dezeen features editor Nat Barker introduces the AItopia series, which has explored AI's impact on design, architecture and humanity.

AI tools created for use in architecture and design are gaining traction and the most advanced of these can generate floor plans, cost analyses and technical drawings, though none can do it all – yet.

Dozens of AI tools could dramatically alter how architects and designers work. Dezeen rounds up 10 of the most significant.

In this guide we explain the key terms in artificial intelligence and why they matter.

AI should be embraced by architects rather than met with scepticism or fear, writes Zaha Hadid Architects principal Patrik Schumacher.

Designer Tim Fu has used LookX, an artificial intelligence tool trained on architecture, to turn squashed paper into building models that evoke designs by architects Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid.

The growth of AI will put an increased environmental burden on the planet, say experts who argue it's time to think about the invisible physical infrastructures of our technology.

Predictions about the potential impacts of generative AI may be overblown due to "many serious, unsolved problems" with the technology according to Gary Marcus, one of the field's leading voices.

The first materials designed by AI could be less than 18 months away, according to Orbital Materials CEO Jonathan Godwin, who aims to harness the technology to create materials to help with carbon capture.

Using AI to help design cities of the future risks creating a regressive world unless we recognise the technology's susceptibility to stigma and bias, write MIT scientists Fábio Duarte and Washington Fajardo.

Killer robots and god-like computers are far from the most pressing threats posed by artificial intelligence, AI ethicist Alice Xiang tells Dezeen in this interview.

To round off our AItopia series exploring the impact of artificial intelligence on design, architecture and humanity, Dezeen editorial director Max Fraser sets out our policy on text- and image-generating technologies.