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AI will Transform Cities. Can Cities Transform AI?

Jinhua Zhao, J. Phillip Thompson, Ross Gittell, Michael Leong, and Kevin F. Hsu

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This is a dynamic project—you have been reading Version 1.2 of the AI & Cities white paper.

 

We welcome your inputs on how to improve this publication. We look forward to further refining the white paper in response to your feedback.

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Gratitude
 

We appreciate the insightful feedback from these individuals on Version 1.1 of the white paper:

Jim Aloisi, Lecturer, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning

John Moavenzadeh, Executive Director, MIT Mobility Initiative

Bhuvan Atluri, Assistant Director of Research, MIT Mobility Initiative

Awad Abdelhalim, Assistant Director of Reserach, MIT JTL/Transit Lab

Kristin White, Head of Public Sector Engagement, Google

Brett Smiley, Mayor of Providence, RI

Jamey Tesler, Director of Mass Mobility Hub

Alok Prakash, CTO M3S, SMART

Mark Fagan, Lecturer in Public Policy and Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School

Clay Garner, Director NYC Emergency Management, former CIO San Jose

Stephen Caines, Chief Innovation Officer, San Jose

We appreciate excellent research assistance from:

Amrita Nair, MIT

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