TY - GEN
T1 - AI beyond Deus ex Machina - Reimagining Intelligence in Future Cities with Urban Experts
AU - Mlynar, Jakub
AU - Bahrami, Farzaneh
AU - Ourednik, André
AU - Mutzner, Nico
AU - Verma, Himanshu
AU - Alavi, Hamed
N1 - Funding Information:
This article is a result of the project “Reimagining Artifcial Intelligence – Towards Establishing a Sociological Conception of AI” (CRSK-1_190489), which was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation in 2020. The research work was performed at the Human-IST Institute at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
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PY - 2022/4/29
Y1 - 2022/4/29
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Artificial Intelligence
KW - Smart City
KW - Sociology
KW - Urban Sciences
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85130566648&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3491102.3517502
DO - 10.1145/3491102.3517502
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85130566648
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI 2022
A2 - Barbosa, Simone
A2 - Lampe, Cliff
A2 - Appert, Caroline
A2 - Shamma, David A.
A2 - Drucker, Steven
A2 - Williamson, Julie
A2 - Yatani, Koji
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2022
Y2 - 30 April 2022 through 5 May 2022
ER -