Artificial intelligence as a model ethical tool in the governance of emerging Smart Cities

Abstract

As times have evolved, so has technology, whose purpose is to facilitate the development and lives of people, increasingly integrated with computers as society becomes more digital. From the beginning of the 21st century to the present day, technological advances have taken giant leaps. In retrospect, it was not long from 1989, when the Internet was introduced to the world, to the present day when the applicability of artificial intelligence in many aspects of human life and development began to be analyzed and tested. In the present academic article it is exposed, by means of an analysis of bibliographic compilation of diverse articles and investigations about artificial intelligence (AI) in different contexts, where artificial intelligence possesses the capacity not only to enhance research, but also to be a tool for the administration of a city, for the creation of public policies, development projects, and urban planning, as well as the viability of these and their forms or processes of integration in a political-social scope of governance. Or, as a double-edged sword, it can be a proliferator of innumerable problems. What has been concluded is that, for the sake of healthy progress and human development, a "middle ground" should be sought regarding the issue of AIs and, ultimately, they should have an exclusively tool function, just as a simple hammer can be, for humanity itself to use responsibly and ethically for its own benefit and future development. It is not a replacement, it is just another tool.