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Title	Smart Cities: Reviewing The Debate About Their Ethical Implications
ID_Doc	49911
Authors	Ziosi M.; Hewitt B.; Juneja P.; Taddeo M.; Floridi L.
Year	2024
Published	AI and Society, 39, 3
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00146-022-01558-0
Abstract	This paper considers a host of definitions and labels attached to the concept of smart cities to identify four dimensions that ground a review of ethical concerns emerging from the current debate. These are: (1) network infrastructure, with the corresponding concerns of control, surveillance, and data privacy and ownership; (2) post-political governance, embodied in the tensions between public and private decision-making and cities as post-political entities; (3) social inclusion, expressed in the aspects of citizen participation and inclusion, and inequality and discrimination; and (4) sustainability, with a specific focus on the environment as an element to protect but also as a strategic element for the future. Given the persisting disagreements around the definition of a smart city, the article identifies in these four dimensions a more stable reference framework within which ethical concerns can be clustered and discussed. Identifying these dimensions makes possible a review of the ethical implications of smart cities that is transversal to their different types and resilient towards the unsettled debate over their definition.
Author Keywords	Artificial intelligence; Data privacy; Ethics; Smart cities; Surveillance

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