Autodesk : shares AI Public Policy Recommendations to help accelerate innovation, efficiency, and resilience in Design and Make industries

Published: 2026-04-15 09:02:14 ET ADSK

Published on 04/15/2026 at 09:02 am EDT

New recommendations outline practical steps to support responsible AI adoption across architecture, engineering, construction, and manufacturing Artificial intelligence is reshaping how industries design, build, and make. Across architecture, engineering, construction, and manufacturing, AI helps improve decision-making, reduce waste, strengthen resilience, and increase productivity. Autodesk's AI Public Policy Recommendations outline how governments can advance policies to help these industries drive economic growth by responsibly leveraging industrial AI.

As a leader in Design and Make technology, Autodesk believes public policy has an important role to play in creating the conditions for broader AI adoption. The recommendations focus on four priorities:

These priorities reflect how AI can improve outcomes for Design and Make industries. In infrastructure and the built environment, AI can help teams identify risks earlier, evaluate factors such as flood risk and wind flow, and optimize projects for cost and resilience before construction begins. In manufacturing, AI can help teams explore design options faster while balancing performance, sustainability, and cost. "We'reat a moment of radical convergence, where the digital and physical worlds are becoming one. Industrial AI is the catalyst that makes this possible, and realizing its full impact will require deep partnership between technology leaders and the public sector." -Andrew Anagnost, Autodesk president and CEO Autodesk's recommendations call on governments to support policies that foster wider adoption of digital design, construction, and manufacturing tools; invest in workforce programs that build AI and digital skills; encourage data-sharing frameworks that can help address critical public needs; and establish clear guardrails for high-risk uses of AI and standards for AI risk management and transparency. Together, these steps can help scale AI's benefits while building trust in how the technology is developed and deployed.

Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost shared his view on how industrial AI can deliver meaningful economic and public benefit, and the importance of public-sector partnership to maximize that impact responsibly as part of the BSA CEO Perspectives video series. This video reinforces Autodesk's broader point of view: that industrial AI can deliver meaningful economic and public benefit, and that public-sector partnership will be essential to maximizing that impact responsibly.

Autodesk looks forward to working with policymakers, partners, and industry leaders globally to scale practical policy approaches, including efforts to support adoption of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and digital project delivery for public projects and digital skilling for the construction and manufacturing workforce, to help make AI part of the blueprint for a more resilient and prosperous future.About AutodeskThe world's designers, engineers, builders, and creators trust Autodesk to help them design and make anything. From the buildings we live and work in, to the cars we drive and the bridges we drive over. From the products we use and rely on, to the movies and games that inspire us. Autodesk's Design and Make Platform unlocks the power of data to accelerate insights and automate processes, empowering our customers with the technology to create the world around us and deliver better outcomes for their business and the planet. For more information, visit autodesk.com or follow @autodesk. #MakeAnything

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