The development of artificial intelligence is unstoppable,and it is revolutionizing and subverting social system norms,rebuilding social infrastructure,and reshaping production and lifestyle with its extremely powerful intelligent technology paradigm,providing opportunities and support for smart urban governance. The empowerment of urban smart governance by artificial intelligence follows the logical mechanism of intelligent perception,neural networks,deep learning,and intelligent services. It is achieved through extensive collection of diverse data information,integrated processing of heterogeneous data information,and assisted decision-making by machine learning algorithms. Artificial intelligence,as a result of modern technological innovation,has a wide range of social spillover effects. While it triggers a panoramic transformation of cities,it also comes with complex overall risks. Therefore,it is urgent to clarify the risks and challenges arising from the empowerment process,such as unexplainable concerns,data supremacy,human subjectivity dilemma,and social polarization risks. In the future,artificial intelligence will adhere to the value goal of harmony,build a social norm system guided by ethics,establish a technology oriented social prevention and control mechanism,improve the social security system with safety as the core,and form a comprehensive social governance system to assist in the realization of smart urban governance in China.
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