"AI in the Street: Scoping Everyday Observatories for Public Engagement with Connected and Automated Urban Environments"

“街头人工智能：通过互联和自动化的城市环境确定公众参与的日常观测站”

• 批准号: AH/Z505651/1
• 负责人: Noortje Suzanne Marres
• 金额: $ 34.25万
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FZ505651%2F1
• 关键词: AI; Street; Scoping; Everyday; Observatories

Over the last decade, the street has emerged as one of the primary sites where everyday publics encounter AI. Industry and public sector organisations have deployed a variety of AI-based technologies in UK streets, from autonomous vehicles (AVs) to navigation apps, data-driven modelling in smart city projects and facial recognition technologies (FRT). These deployments have been accompanied by significant policy initiatives defining societal benefits of AI-driven innovation (safety, levelling up, sustainability, inclusion) as well as institutional engagements with affected communities through policy exhibitions, user-centred workshops and citizen cafés. However, from the perspective of the street, AI innovation often manifests as a messy social reality, provoking frictions that exceed existing frameworks for responsible innovation: in Cambridge, firefighters battling a fire had to move a delivery robot that was in their way, while in Australia suburbs were left without electricity after a food delivery drone made an emergency landing on top of a set of powerlines. There remain, then, significant divergences between the general frameworks for responsible AI and the particular lived realities of AI in the street. To build capacity among everyday publics and AI innovation consortia to engage across such divides, this 6-month project will develop a situated, creative approach to public engagement with AI: street-level observatories of everyday AI.To bridge divides between lay and expert understandings of AI innovation, we will evaluate and prototype a set of street-level observatories for everyday AI. The aim of these observatories is to explore how everyday publics perceive and engage with AI at a primary site - city streets - where specific transformations, benefits, harms and (ir)responsibilities of AI in society can be made visible and thus legible for both publics and stakeholders. To realise this, we will collaborate with local partners and the arts to trial creative interventions that invite people on the street to observe the effects of AI in the lived environment. Our scoping project will 1) build partnerships across the humanities, arts and social sciences and with organisations and groups committed to situated forms of public engagement with AI-based science and innovation in connected and automated cities. In partnership with local government, we will 2) trial street-level AI observatories in 4 diverse UK cities—Cambridge, Coventry, London and Edinburgh—and one international location, Logan (Australia). The observatories will combine digital, place-based and/or embodied approaches, such as data walks and sensor media (apps) and will be designed to support shared learning across the project teams and partners.Trialling AI observatories in city streets will enable us to undertake 3) a joint process of evaluating and prototyping an everyday AI observatory. This will make visible the entanglement of everyday social life with AI, showing people and technologies in complex real-world settings where sectoral, disciplinary and specialist interests intersect. This will be a space of interest to partners in local and national government, public policy innovation, and AI scientists and industry representatives, and create opportunities for developing shared understandings of societal responses and priorities between industry, policymakers, researchers and everyday publics.

在过去的十年中，这条街已经成为每天遇到AI的主要网站之一。从自动驾驶汽车（AVS）到导航应用程序，智能城市项目中的数据驱动建模以及面部识别技术（FRT），行业和公共部门组织已在英国街道上部署了各种基于AI的技术。这些部署是通过定义AI驱动创新（安全，升级，可持续性，包容性）的社会福利以及通过政策展览，以用户为中心的研讨会和公民咖啡馆与受影响社区的机构交往来实现的。 However, from the perspective of the street, AI innovation often manifests as a messy social reality, provoking frictions that exceed existing frameworks for responsible innovation: in Cambridge, firefighters battling a fire had to move a delivery robot that was in their way, while in Australia suburbs were left without electricity after a food delivery drone made an emergency landing on top of a set of powerlines.然后，仍然存在负责人AI的一般框架与街上AI的特定现实现实之间的显着差异。为了在每天的公众和AI创新联盟之间建立能力，可以在此类部门进行参与，这个6个月的项目将开发一种与AI：AI：街道级观察AI的创造性的方法，以每天的街道观察到AI创新之间的桥梁分裂，我们将评估和原型街道级别的街道级别观察。这些观察的目的是探索公众在主要地点 - 城市街道上如何感知并与AI互动，在这里，在社会中，特定的转变，福利，伤害和（IR）AI在社会中的责任可以使公众和利益相关者易懂。为了实现这一目标，我们将与当地合作伙伴和艺术合作，以试用创意干预措施，邀请人们在街上观察AI在现场环境中的影响。我们的范围项目将1）在人文，艺术和社会科学之间建立伙伴关系，以及与致力于与基于AI的科学和创新的组织和团体在互联和自动化城市中进行公众参与的形式。我们将与地方政府合作，我们将2）在英国4个潜水城市（Cambridge，Coventry，London和Edinburgh）和一个国际位置，洛根（澳大利亚）的一个国际潜水城市中的街道级AI观察。这些观察结果将结合数字，基于地点和/或具体的方法，例如数据步行和传感器媒体（APP），并将旨在支持项目团队和合作伙伴之间的共享学习。城市街道上的AI观察结果将使我们能够进行3）每天评估和原型的AI AI IPERTACTION。这将使人们每天与AI的社交生活纠缠，在复杂的现实环境中向人们和技术展示部门，纪律和专家利益相交的人和技术。这将是地方和国家政府，公共政策创新以及AI科学家和行业代表的合作伙伴的兴趣空间，并为建立对行业，政策制定者，研究人员和每天公众之间社会反应和优先事项的共同理解创造机会。