This lecture forms part of the AI Dialogue Series: AI in Architecture and Music, an initiative organized by Dr. Mustapha El Moussaoui under the Studium Generale at unibz in collaboration with the Sunrise Alliance. 

For this session, we are honored to welcome Prof. Neil Leach, one of the world's leading architectural theorists and a prominent voice in discussions surrounding artificial intelligence and the future of architecture.

What exactly is AI? How did it evolve? And what potential does it have to reshape architecture and society?

In this thought-provoking lecture, Neil Leach will take us on a journey through the past, present, and future of artificial intelligence, exploring both its extraordinary possibilities and its more unsettling implications. The talk concludes with a provocative proposition: that humanity may soon encounter a radically different form of intelligence, an "alien intelligence" capable of exceeding human cognitive capacities and fundamentally transforming the discipline of architecture.