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Artificial Intelligence at Urban Scale: Vision, Language, Power
AI has been perhaps unique in that it is a technology that has developed in relation to thought experiments about AI (Turing’s Test, Searle’s Chinese Room, etc.), which has informed the actual technologies, which has informed further thought experiments. This double-helix between the real and the virtual forms of AI should continue apace. Encounters should be staged between advanced work in the philosophy of artificial intelligence and the cutting edge applications of the technology at platform-scale to discern where translation between formal and practical models of AI breaks down. It’s there that further thought experiments may be most inspired. The “Urban Scale” model defines AI as a landscape-scale phenomenon that is dependent on myriad sensor arrays to know the world in which it is co-situated. Instead of considering AI in a petri dish, as some disembodied “brain,” synthetic sensing and intelligence should be under