Brainstorm AI Singapore 2024: How AI Is building the cities of the future

Charlie Liu : Is the idea of the smart city now maybe coming into fruition? And I think I'm really excited about the potential of AI , primarily because it levels up the playing field for developing cities.

But I think to I also wanted to curb some of the enthusiasm, right? I think we are still quite far away from that because cities are political and there are political parts of the decision making it unfortunately, we don't trust AI .

Data transparency is very, very important, and the ability to allow general folks to actually criticize that data, I think is step one.

How do you chart that balance in terms of taking advantage of what drones can do, but also making sure urban populations aren't scared by fleets of drones collecting data on them? And how do you manage people's perception of those drones?.

Baidu has started developing autonomous driving since 2013 , right? Like 11 years ago . So, so you know, started from a single vehicle, a few vehicles on a single Rd ., all the way to now.

How do you, how should cities manage that transition as more stuff gets automated? How do they manage the human labor that that gets affected from that technology?.