AI Won’t Make Cities Resilient on Its Own; Institutions Have to Deliver

In the study "AI Adoption Enablers and Institutional Governance for Sustainable Infrastructure Resilience in Smart Cities," published in Sustainability, Wael Alattyih and Mohamed T. Elnabwy examine what makes AI appear valuable for resilient urban services.

These are findings about perceived resilience, not proof that AI has prevented outages or reduced losses.

They rated conditions associated with AI adoption, aspects of institutional governance and infrastructure resilience across environmental, economic and social dimensions.

The best-performing model explained a modest share of variation in perceived resilience.

Stakeholders who saw clearer practical benefits from AI tended to rate infrastructure resilience more highly.