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https://doi.org/10.21860/j.11.1.11
The Urban Ethics of an AI-powered Planetary Urbanization
Jeffrey K. H. Chan
orcid.org/0000-0001-6813-8645
; Singapore University of Technology and Design, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Sažetak
By 2100, the world may be entirely urbanized with every person living in cities. This imminent
reality of planetary urbanization is likely to entail drastic environmental, economic, and social
changes, all of which in turn are likely to impact the nature of human relations and their
interactions in cities. Urban ethics is, therefore, concerned with the question of what ought
to be the proper relations between people flourishing in the city? This question is presently
compounded by the rise of the ‘smarter smart cities’, where urban technologies are enabled by
artificial intelligence (AI) that can sense, track, learn, predict, and attempt to control human
behaviors. The rapid confluence of these three developments, namely, planetary urbanization,
urban ethics, and the AI-powered smart city, reveals an under-explored scenario pregnant
with new social promises yet laced with many moral hazards. In this article, the following
scenario, which is bounded by the following three vectors, will be examined: (i) How does the
urban shape the ethical, and in what ways? (ii) What is the AI-powered smart city, and how
does it impact the present notion of planetary urbanization? (iii) How does the AI-powered
smart city change ethical agencies and in which specific ways? Together, the answers to these
questions begin to further prime discussions in urban bioethics in the milieu of AI-powered
cities.
Ključne riječi
planetary urbanization, urban ethics, artificial intelligence, smart city, ethical algorithms
Hrčak ID:
240221
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Datum izdavanja:
18.6.2020.
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