{"id":1363,"date":"2023-10-26T09:25:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T13:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2023-10-26T09:30:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T13:30:43","slug":"how-can-cities-use-ai-these-professors-are-creating-guidelines-for-how-artificial-intelligence-could-be-used-for-public-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/how-can-cities-use-ai-these-professors-are-creating-guidelines-for-how-artificial-intelligence-could-be-used-for-public-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"How can cities use AI? These professors are creating guidelines for how artificial intelligence could be used for public interest."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof x_ContentPasted0 x_ContentPasted1\"><span class=\"x_ContentPasted2\">The Boston Area Research Initiative, run by public policy professors Daniel O\u2019Brien and Kim Lucas, recently received a grant from The Public Interest Technology University Network to investigate growing public interest technology. Together, the Professors are researching how AI can be used by the city of Boston to educate residents on its usage.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1364\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1364\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1364\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/ezgif-3-84047d16ce-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The city of Boston and Northeastern University seen from above. Northeastern University is partnering with the City of Boston for a study on best use of AI in public policy. Photo by Billie Weiss for Northeastern University\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/ezgif-3-84047d16ce-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/ezgif-3-84047d16ce-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/ezgif-3-84047d16ce-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/10\/ezgif-3-84047d16ce.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The city of Boston and Northeastern University seen from above. Northeastern University is partnering with the City of Boston for a study on best use of AI in public policy. Photo by Billie Weiss for Northeastern University<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><strong><a class=\"btn bg--red --lg\" href=\"https:\/\/news.northeastern.edu\/2023\/10\/10\/ai-public-interest-technology\/\">Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Area Research Initiative, run by public policy professors Daniel O\u2019Brien and Kim Lucas, recently received a grant from The Public Interest Technology University Network to investigate growing public interest technology. Together, the Professors are researching how AI can be used by the city of Boston to educate residents on its usage. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,24,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-success","category-faculty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.northeastern.edu\/advance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}