Academic calls for expanded efforts in AI-driven smart city initiatives

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PETALING JAYA: The government should intensify its efforts in creating smart cities driven by artificial intelligence (AI) to help the public embrace this new technology, says an academic.

Putrajaya aims to transform the three federal territories into smart cities by 2030, with an emphasis on sustainability.

Planned initiatives include the use of electric buses in Wangsa Maju as a pioneering low-carbon city, the addition of closed-circuit camera (CCTV) installations in Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya, and the installation of WiFi in people’s housing and public housing projects in Labuan.

Johari Yusof, a lecturer in Universiti Putra Malaysia’s (UPM) landscape architecture faculty said that AI can play a significant role in smart city initiatives, especially in governance, transportation, healthcare, and waste disposal.

He said the usage of AI in people’s daily lives will help encourage more of them to embrace the technology, in line with the government’s goal of utilising it for national development.

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