AI and the Transformation of Accountability and Discretion in Urban Governance

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13101v1
• Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:11:39 GMT
• Title: AI and the Transformation of Accountability and Discretion in Urban Governance
• Authors: Stephen Goldsmith, Juncheng Yang,
• Abstract summary: The paper highlights AI's potential to reposition human discretion and reshape specific types of accountability. It advances a framework for responsible AI adoption, ensuring that urban governance remains adaptive, transparent, and aligned with public values.
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• Abstract: The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in urban governance presents significant opportunities to transform decision-making and enhance accountability. The paper highlights AI's potential to reposition human discretion and reshape specific types of accountability, elevating the decision-making capabilities of both frontline bureaucrats and managers while ensuring ethical standards and public trust are maintained. While AI can enhance bureaucratic flexibility and efficiency, its integration will also necessitate new governance frameworks to mitigate risks associated with uneven capacity distribution, ethical concerns, and public trust. Following the literature review and theoretical discussion, this study introduces a set of guiding principles for AI-assisted urban governance, emphasizing equitable AI deployment, adaptive administrative structures, robust data governance, transparent human-AI collaboration, and citizen engagement in oversight mechanisms. By critically evaluating AI's dual role in expanding discretion and reinforcing accountability, this paper advances a framework for responsible AI adoption, ensuring that urban governance remains adaptive, transparent, and aligned with public values.

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