AI beyond Deus ex Machina: Reimagining Intelligence in Future Cities with Urban Experts

Jakub Mlynar; André Ourednik; Farzaneh Bahrami; Verma Himanshu; Nico Mutzner; Hamed Alavi

AI beyond Deus ex Machina: Reimagining Intelligence in Future Cities with Urban Experts

Jakub Mlynar, André Ourednik, Farzaneh Bahrami, Verma Himanshu, Nico Mutzner, Hamed Alavi

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Abstract

The current mechanisms that drive the development of AI technologies are widely criticized for being tech-oriented and market-led
instead of stemming from societal challenges. In Human-Centered AI discourses, and more broadly in Human-Computer Interaction
research, initiatives have been proposed to engage experts from various domains of social science in determining how AI should reach
our societies, predominantly through informing the adoption policies. Our contribution, however, seeks a more essential role for social
sciences, namely to introduce discursive standpoints around what we need AI to be. With a focus on the domain of urbanism, the
specific goal has been to elicit – from interviews with 16 urban experts – the imaginaries of how AI can and should impact future
cities. Drawing on the social science literature, we present how the notion of "imaginary" has essentially framed this research and how
it could reveal an alternative vision of non-human intelligent actors in future cities.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 5-May-2022
Event	CHI22 - New Orleans, LA, United States Duration: 30-Apr-2022 → 5-May-2022 https://chi2022.acm.org/

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Conference	CHI22
Country/Territory	United States
City	New Orleans, LA
Period	30/04/2022 → 05/05/2022
Internet address	https://chi2022.acm.org/

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Artificial intelligence
Imaginary
Smart Cities
Futures

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