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SUMMARY:AI and the City: Urbanistic perspectives on artificial intelligen
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DESCRIPTION:Manchester Urban Institute seminar with Dr Federico Cugurollo
 \, Trinity College Dublin\n\nInnovation in artificial intelligence (AI) 
 is transforming cities in unprecedented ways. In this seminar we will ex
 plore the connections between AI and the urban by focusing on the concep
 t of urban AI and reflecting on its most prominent incarnations: autonom
 ous vehicles\, urban robots\, city brains and urban software agents. We 
 will then see how the emergence of urban AI is producing a new urbanism\
 , an AI urbanism\, that originates from smart urbanism but also departs 
 from it along three main axes\, namely function\, presence and agency. E
 mpirically\, we will draw on the findings from several international cas
 e studies to examine the repercussions of urban AI and give evidence of 
 how the emergence of AI in cities is reshaping urban society\, urban inf
 rastructure\, urban governance\, urban planning and urban sustainability
 . Theoretically\, we will discuss the implications of the emergence of u
 rban AI for urban theory and the future of cities. We will conclude the 
 seminar with a warning about the impending risks posed by multiple urban
  AIs and the obscure black boxes driving their operations\, but also wit
 h an invitation to politically engage as citizens with increasingly auto
 nomous cities that might escape our understanding and thus our control.\
 n\nBiography \nFederico Cugurullo is Associate Professor in Smart and Su
 stainable Urbanism at Trinity College Dublin. His research is positioned
  at the intersection of urban geography\, political philosophy and exper
 imental urbanism\, and explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is infl
 uencing urban governance and planning\, thereby impacting the sustainabi
 lity of cities. Empirically\, he has done extensive research in the Midd
 le East and Southeast Asia on many experimental cities including Masdar 
 City\, Hong Kong and The Line. Theoretically\, Federico is interested in
  unpacking the notion of AI from an urbanistic perspective\, and in fles
 hing out the conceptual implications of AI-mediated urban spaces\, such 
 as the “end of the city” hypothesis introduced in his monograph Frankens
 tein Urbanism (Routledge 2021). He is a co-editor of Artificial Intellig
 ence and the City: Urbanistic Perspectives on AI (Routledge 2023).\n
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LOCATION:1.70\, Humanities Bridgeford Street\, Manchester
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