Mike Pearson and Pat Burns speak with David Miller, an industrial designer in San Francisco who has over a decade of experience designing products for tech companies. David has seen firsthand how AI tools like Midjourney and ChatGPT have transformed the creative process. But he believes human designers, artists and creators still have an irreplaceable role to play. David argues that if we teach design, writing, art or any field primarily as a technical skill, we risk losing sight of the human experience that gives creative work meaning. While AI may handle routine tasks, human qualities like creativity, intuition, emotion, empathy and storytelling remain uniquely human. By cultivating them, humans and machines can build a collaborative future.

However, David warns that the rise of AI means educators, designers and artists have urgent work a ...