AI and the future of design: What will the designer of 2025 look like?

For more on the future of AI and design, check out Mike Haley's session, The future will see you now: Machine learning transforms design, at the O'Reilly Design Conference, March 19-22, 2017, in San Francisco. Artefact's co-founder, Rob Girling, explores the impact of artificial intelligence on design in this three-part series of articles. His first piece, Will machines take your job?, outlines the unprecedented changes AI and automation will bring to jobs in general. In the second installment, What skills do we need to compete against the machines, he outlines criteria that will make some professions more vulnerable to AI automation. For anyone doubting that AI is here, the New York Times recently reported that Carnegie Mellon University plans to create a research center that focuses on the ethics of artificial intelligence.