Ai-podden

Our guest in the episode of AI-podden is Andy Karvonen, Professor of Urban Design and Planning at Lund University. Andy shares with us his thoughts and ideas on the future of cities, painting a picture of how we could see autonomous systems running around visually, such as self-driving cars and robots performing certain tasks. He describes a future of an “Urban Brain", where we have some kind of smart city control room managing all aspects, from traffic to transportation and the management of facilities. Andy and Ather discuss the pros and cons of such a future, delving into the hard but important questions of privacy, surveillance, and so on. Andy and Ather also discuss the future of an AI-driven society, policymaking, and how to deal with the challenge of big tech dominating in the AI tech field.