Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Smart Cities

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) enables ‘smart' solutions and brings multiple benefits, including the more efficient provision of energy and water, combined with better waste management and reductions in pollution, noise, and traffic congestion. Achieving the goal of universal AI implementation in smart cities is not a simple task. There are substantive challenges and both political and practical actions to slow progress. Practical issues often enter around the fundamental lack of infrastructure surrounding a potential AI revolution with a realignment of educational goals that is seemingly inevitable, something also necessary for the long-term politically and ethically sustainable application of artificial intelligence in social and civil settings. This chapter aims to address the associated regulatory and practical issues, both through de jure and de facto means.