{"id":43412,"date":"2024-02-09T11:26:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T11:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=43412"},"modified":"2024-02-09T11:26:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T11:26:09","slug":"university-warwick-secures-funding-spearhead-research-project-ai-in-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/university-warwick-secures-funding-spearhead-research-project-ai-in-cities\/43412\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Warwick secures funding to spearhead research project on AI in cities"},"content":{"rendered":"
AI in the streets<\/a> is part of the wider funding announced by the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation as part of a plan to ensure the UK is a leader in AI<\/a> research.<\/p>\n The project aims to understand how ethical AI principles relate to the practical challenges of using AI in cities.<\/p>\n AI in the streets is led by researchers from the University of Warwick and Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, with colleagues from the University of Cambridge.<\/p>\n As well as academic collaborators, other partners include Careful Industries (London), who will address the social impact of technology, and Coventry-based artists Talking Birds, who will highlight the relationships between people and place.<\/p>\n City streets have become a common place where the public can interact with AI, for example, autonomous vehicles and surveillance systems.<\/p>\n Despite various policy initiatives promoting the societal benefits of AI innovation, such as safety, inclusion, and sustainability, the deployment of these technologies often reveals unforeseen challenges.<\/p>\n Professor Noortje Marres from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick and project lead said: \u201cOur goal is to make visible the messy realities of how AI is experienced in the street, in the form of automated vehicles, facial recognition and AI-based apps.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want to use this insight to highlight the specific transformations, benefits, harms, and responsibilities that arise from \u2018AI\u2019 in real-world settings, and to communicate these to AI scientists and industry representatives so that they, too, can learn from the street.”<\/p>\n The project will collaborate with local partners and leverage creative interventions to foster a shared understanding of AI\u2019s impact on society among stakeholders and the general public.<\/p>\n Through collaborative efforts, AI in the streets will pave the way for responsible and inclusive AI innovation in connected and automated cities.<\/p>\n The AHRC\u2019s programme for Bridging Divides in Responsible AI (BRAID) provided the funding for the project. Additional financial support is from the Monash Warwick Alliance Co-Fund.<\/p>\n The AI research project\u2019s approach gained interest from a wide range of stakeholders, including local and national government, policy innovators, AI scientists, industry representatives, and researchers across many disciplines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The University of Warwick has been awarded a share of \u00a3100m of UK Government funding for its groundbreaking new AI research project \u2018AI in the streets.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":43419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[830],"tags":[570],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nChallenges with AI deployment in cities<\/h3>\n
Paving the way for AI innovation<\/h3>\n
Interest from stakeholders<\/h3>\n