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Town Hall Discussion: Community Integrity in the AI City

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The Urban & Regional Planning Program invites you to participate in a town hall dialogue to explore emerging opportunity and risk frameworks associated with the increasing deployment of Artificial Intelligence technologies across urban systems.  The following questions will be explored: 

 

How are cities and communities supported by applications and safeguards for AI deployment?

How effective are municipal-issued codes of ethics for the use of AI?

Is the agency of the place-based urban development professional growing stronger or weaker?

 

This event will be structured in an interactive format with the following discussion leaders: 

 

Frederic Lemieux, Ph.D., Chair, Working Group on Artificial Intelligence at the School of Continuing Studies; Professor of the Practice; Faculty Director, Applied Intelligence, Cybersecurity Risk Management, Technology Management and Information Technology Management Program, Georgetown University

 

Lianne Plass, Vice Chair, Committee on Technology, American Planning Association; Senior Manager for Urban Resilience, Urban Land Institute; faculty, Georgetown Urban & Regional Planning Program

 

Christopher Pyke, Ph.D., Director of Innovation, Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark; former Chief Strategy Officer, Aclima; former Director of Research, United States Green Building Council; faculty, Georgetown Urban & Regional Planning Program

 

Matt Sokol, Chief Data Officer, The Office of the Chief Technology Officer, Government of the District of Columbia

 

Katie Wells, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fritz Fellow, Georgetown University Tech & Society Initiative; author, Disrupting DC: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City (Princeton University Press, 2023)

 

This event will be moderated by: 

 

Uwe S. Brandes, Professor of the Practice; Faculty Director, Urban & Regional Planning Program; Faculty Director, Georgetown Global Cities Initiative

 

This is an in-person event hosted by the School of Continuing Studies as a component of the Responsible AI Intersectoral Seminar Series.  The event will be also be streamed as a Zoom webinar and the recording will be posted on this webpage after the event.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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