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When reports like Adecco’s Global Workforce of the Future survey find that the average saving for workers using AI is 1 hour a day, we should question this.

* What did those workers do with their time savings?

* Should that time savings benefit the employer or the employee?

* Can we trust such a hard-to-measure stat?

Our latest episode tackles this and other disruptions happening to the creative and production processes.

Matthew Krissel is the Co-Founder of the Built Environment Futures Council and a Principal at Perkins&Will. For over two decades, he has led transformative architectural projects across North America and internationally.

We discussed how AI is disrupting architecture and lessons for digital product teams. He really struck powerful points many times during our conversation about questioning the role of time and permanence in a world when we want more, faster.

Other points covered in the conversation:

* Commoditizing design makes production easier, enabling societies to tackle challenges like housing shortfalls

* Commoditizing design devalues other vital processes, like community engagement, respectful place-making, and longevity of projects

* Over-indexing AI’s potential as a workflow optimizer, while under-indexing the potential to reimagine how complex projects are planned and operationalized

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In this newsletter, I’d like to tackle the concept of time saving and what it means from the perspective of crafting an AI strategy.

Here was the most important quote from the episode:

 So just because something took half the time it did before, what happened is we just did more. So we just filled the time.

Is there something higher and better use? I suspect that somewhere along the line the designs got better. Also I suspect that somewhere along there was diminishing returns. We were just doing more because we could not that it was actually yielding anything better.

 Are you gonna focus on fewer, but better increase your quality? Are you going to spend more time on business development or some entrepreneurial side hustle? Just go home early? What you decide to do as we start to gain productivity time is going to shape a lot of where this is all happening.

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His books have also always been pivotal reads to advance your craft. Hopefully, we can do some of the same with our Design of AI podcast and newsletter.

Who should benefit most from your ability to learn AI: You or your employer?

The challenge to creatives and builders is to decide who should benefit from these transformative technologies if you’re self-taught:

* Should you gift your employer the benefits if you’ve taught yourself ways of getting 25% more work