AI Threatens Urban Planners’ Jobs

Will urban planners lead through artificial intelligence or will they be replaced?

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The question might sound like clickbait, but the potential for AI to perform planners’ work makes it impossible to ignore.

Tools like ChatGPT and Gemini can already draft zoning memos, condense lengthy environmental documents into bite-sized summaries, and sketch development scenarios in less time than it takes you to finish a cup of coffee. If computers can crank through our routine work in minutes or hours instead of days or months, what does that mean for the future of our profession? More bluntly: how many urban planners will actually be needed and what will be their new set of tasks?

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