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ArticleAI & society2023

The system of autono‑mobility: computer vision and urban complexity-reflections on artificial intelligence at urban scale.

Fabio Iapaolo

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Article in AI & society, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Fabio IapaoloOxford, UK Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment, Oxford Brookes University.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7344-8816

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Focused on city-scale automation, and using self-driving cars (SDCs) as a case study, this article reflects on the role of AI-and in particular, computer vision systems used for mapping and navigation-as a catalyst for urban transformation. Urban research commonly presents AI and cities as having a one-way cause-and-effect relationship, giving undue weight to AI's impact on cities and overlooking the role of cities in shaping AI. Working at the intersection of data science and social research, this paper aims to counter this trend by exploring the reverse perspective: how do cities affect the development, and expose the present limits, of SDCs? The contribution of this paper is threefold. First, by comparing urban and nonurban environments and thoroughly examining the relationship between computer vision and city-specific sociality and form, it defines machine autonomy/automation as a function of the sociotechnical milieu in which an AI system operates. Second, and related, the paper problematizes the notion of SDCs as autonomous technologies and the role it plays in envisioning contending policy arrangements and technical solutions for achieving full driving automation. Finally, the article offers insight into a materialist and spatialized understanding of AI-namely, not as an abstract quality susceptible to replication within discrete machines, but rather as a distributed property emerging through embodied interactions among a multiplicity of agents (human, non-human, and technological) within/with their environments.

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Autono-mobilityAutonomous technologiesComputer visionMachine learningSelf-driving carsUrban AIUrban governance

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PMID37215367
PMCPMC10165562

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