In this talk, Martha explores how AI is beginning to fundamentally reshape architectural practice, not simply as another software upgrade, but as a category shift that challenges the profession’s economic model, workflows, and sense of value. Framing AI as an “underhero,” powerful, flawed and increasingly unavoidable, she moves between practical examples of Foster + Partners’ applied AI work and a wider reflection on what happens when design production, analysis, documentation and even decision-making begin to compress into radically shorter timescales. But rather than offering a simplistic narrative of replacement, the talk asks a deeper question: what remains distinctly human in architecture when so much can be automated? Martha argues that the future value of architects will lie less in production and more in judgment, accountability, empathy, refusal, and the ability to define what truly matters. It is both a sharp critique of where the profession is heading and a call to reinvent architecture around the human qualities machines cannot replicate.