Fairness and non-discrimination in urban AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) is an emerging, disruptive and ambivalent technology. As part of its deployment, cities need to put various mechanisms in place to ensure that this technology has the least possible negative impact on people and communities. The aim is to ensure that cities remain fair spaces that leave no one behind. This chapter, subdivided into three sections, formulates policy recommendations for integrating aspects of fairness and non-discrimination into the deployment of AI by cities. The first section discusses the notions of fairness and non-discrimination in urban settings and introduces the factors determining fair and non-discriminatory AI. The second section explores the opportunities and impacts of AI in cities. Finally, the third section proposes policy recommendations for fairer AI in cities. These recommendations take into account the different roles that cities can play in the deployment of AI as in-house solution developers, deployers and regulators. Cities need to be agile, relying on participation, local approaches, sociotechnical innovation, collaboration and so on.