Reimagining Digital Public Spaces and Artificial Intelligence for Deep Cooperation
Peter R. Lewis, S. R. Lewis, Sue Lewis, Amanda McEachern Gaudet, Amanda Ottley
Abstract
g ReseaRcheRs who have worked in computer science or artificial intelligence for more than a few years will have experienced a profound shift in the public perception of their field from being something that people rarely cared about outside of sci-fi or niche academic or "geek" interest to something that is suddenly everywhere all over the world and seems to be permeating every field and every product.How should we respond to this?This challenge was raised recently by the inclusion of artificial intelligence (AI) into a debate around the concept of place, triggered by an invitation to the Securitization for Sustainability of People and Place Workshop at the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society 2022.How should we think about the role of technology, and, in particular, AI, in the context of place?