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Urban Artificial Intelligence: From Automation to Autonomy in the Smart City
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Technological innovation is constantly reshaping the materiality and mechanics of alleged smart cities. Recently, innovation in artificial intelligence (AI) in the shape of self-driving cars, robots and city brains, has been pushing the so-called smart city to morph into an autonomous urban creature which is largely unknown. In this emerging strand of smart urbanism, artificially intelligent entities are taking the management of urban services as well as urban governance out of the hands of humans, operating the city in an autonomous manner. This paper explores, in theory and practice, how the development of AI intersects with the development of the city. The contribution of the paper is threefold. First, the paper advances a theoretical framework to understand AI specifically in urban contexts, developing the concept of urban artificial intelligence. Second, it examines the case of Masdar City, an Emirati urban experiment, to show how the genesis of urban artificial intelligences is part of a long-standing process of technological development and a politico-economic agenda which together are enabling the transition from automation to autonomy. Third, it proposes a research agenda to investigate what the paper terms the autonomous city.
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- Authors
- Cugurullo, F.
- Affiliations
- Trinity College Dublin (IE)
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- Cugurullo, Federico
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- Cugurullo, Federico
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- Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
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- Frontiers Media SA
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- 2020-07-30
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- 2
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Smart Cities and Technologies
- Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban Planning and Governance
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Keywords
- smart cities, autonomous cities, autonomous vehicles, City Brain, urban governance, municipal services, Masdar City, smart urbanism
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