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Urban AI should not be understood as a single, inevitable next stage of the smart city, say researchers

Jun Zhang and colleagues have published a new article in Urban Geography arguing that urban AI should not be understood as a single, inevitable next stage of the smart city. Instead, it shows that AI urbanism is a contested political and discursive formation—a set of truth-claims about what AI is, w...

Urban AI should not be understood as a single, inevitable next stage of the smart city, say researchers
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Jun Zhang and colleagues have published a new article in Urban Geography arguing that urban AI should not be understood as a single, inevitable next stage of the smart city. Instead, it shows that AI urbanism is a contested political and discursive formation—a set of truth-claims about what AI is, what it can do, and why it should govern.

Originally published at Phys.org

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