Photoshop can import AI files, but an error will occur

Normally, importing AI files into Photoshop, it'd:

• Convert it into a smart object
• Not throw error messages
• Place it in your active document.

Using CCC to drag an AI file into Photoshop, will instead give you the following results:

• Import it as it was any other image (not a smart object)
• It'll always throw an error message
• It'll always make a new document

However, it's worth noting that - given the same document - both local and from the DAM, Photoshop will save the two in almost the same quality inside a PSD document.

This means that, using the connector to retrieve AI files into PSD documents, you will get the same quality as what you'd do using the "native" ways.

The below is the aforementioned error message:

It translates to: The document is yet to be saved