Image Source: The image above was generated on January 12, 2024 at 2:46pm by DALL-E2 using the following prompt: "A watercolor image to promote a university dialogue on the responsible use of artificial intelligence in cities."
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.
