AI in City Planning: Who’s Included and Who’s Left Out?

Using AI technology to design flourishing cities requires proactive planning, informed by the foreseeable benefits and harms of each decision. This is possible when planners clearly understand AI “under the hood”, including how AI systems are developed, and the values at play throughout the development process. Towards this goal, this talk explains the basics of ethics and machine learning, and how these can be leveraged to build inclusive and equitable cities of tomorrow.