Architects don't need AI, says high-tech pioneer Norman Foster

Foster has been shaping urban landscapes since the 1960s and won the Pritzker Prize, the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in architecture, in 1999. Photo: Joel Saget/AFP

British architect Norman Foster has spent six decades pushing the boundaries of technology with awe-inspiring modernist structures from California to Hong Kong, but he is yet to be convinced by the craze for artificial intelligence.

"Artificial intelligence at the moment has the ability to cheat, to invent," he said in a recent interview in Paris, which is hosting a retrospective of his work.