Architecture is not immune to the opportunities and threats of artificial intelligence, emergent technologies that will change the nature of design and practice in myriad ways. Unlike predecessor tools like CAD or BIM, this new class of tools acts with independence, challenging the roles, responsibilities, processes and fundamental agency of architects and the systems in which they operate. Through direct experimentation, reading and discussion, and lectures from experts in the field, this course will develop an understanding of the trajectories of AI technology, interrogate the process implications of autonomous generative algorithms, and explore larger socio-economic and ethical questions as machines fill larger roles in the discipline and the society it serves. This course may, at the student’s discretion, fulfill area study requirements in Visualization, History/Theory, or Technology and Practice.