  This position paper argues for, and offers, a critical lens through which to
examine the current AI frenzy in the landscape architecture profession. In it,
the authors propose five archetypes or mental modes that landscape architects
might inhabit when thinking about AI. Rather than limiting judgments of AI use
to a single axis of acceleration, these archetypes and corresponding narratives
exist along a relational spectrum and are permeable, allowing LAs to take on
and switch between them according to context. We model these relationships
between the archetypes and their contributions to AI advancement using a causal
loop diagram (CLD), and with those interactions argue that more nuanced ways of
approaching AI might also open new modes of practice in the new digital
economy.
