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Innovation in artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming cities in unprecedented ways (Cugurullo, 2020). Robots are increasingly managing key urban services, performing jobs that were once the exclusive domain of humans, and maintaining the infrastructure of cities (Lynch et al., 2022; Macrorie et al., 2021). Self-driving cars are reshaping urban transport systems, thereby triggering new mobilities and impacting on the design of the built environment (Cugurullo et al. 2021; Dowling and McGuirk, 2022). City brains and digital platforms are gradually taking charge of urban governance, operating entire urban systems ranging from health to transport and from security to ecosystems (Caprotti and Liu, 2020; Curran and Smart, 2021). Meanwhile, through mobile apps and personal computers, invisible software agents are deciding on who has to be in quarantine and who will get a mortgage (Kitchin, 2020; Lee and Floridi, 2021).
The aim of this in-person session is to explore in theory and practice how AI intersects with and alters the city, in the attempt to understand the repercussions that AI is having on urban society, urban infrastructure, urban governance, urban planning and urban sustainability. At the same time, the session aims to examine how the city, far from being an inert recipient of new technologies, is impacting on AI as part of subtle processes of co-constitution and co-determination.

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