AI beyond Deus ex Machina

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

Mlynar, Jakub (University of Applied Sciences)
Bahrami, Farzaneh (University College London)
Ourednik, André (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
Mutzner, Nico (University of Zürich)
Verma, H. (TU Delft Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence)
Alavi, Hamed (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

2022

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.

Artificial Intelligence
Smart City
Sociology
Urban Sciences

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:22f1cd4e-35d2-45c3-a5fc-969748c3b7a0

https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3517502

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY, Usa

2023-07-01

978-1-4503-9157-3

CHI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2022, 2022-04-30 → 2022-05-05, Virtual, Online, United States

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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© 2022 Jakub Mlynar, Farzaneh Bahrami, André Ourednik, Nico Mutzner, H. Verma, Hamed Alavi