An artificial intelligence (AI) developer, has convened a panel drawn from “leading and independent experts,” to look at “building public trust in new approaches to infrastructure planning”.
The Linear Infrastructure Planning Panel launched by AI infrastructure software firm, Continuum Industries, has stated its aims as “to consult and incorporate the perspectives of key public interest stakeholders in the development of best practices and ethical approaches in the use of new techniques, such as algorithms and advanced software tools, for linear infrastructure planning.”
The panel is scheduled to meet on 10 March to discuss “the importance of early public engagement, approaches for building public trust in new technologies such as AI and strategies for avoiding infrastructure planning concerns.” The panel said it will bring together community groups, non-government organisations and “other key external stakeholders” to consider topics including maintenance of biodiversity and how AI can be instrumental in streamlining planning.
Panel chair, Sharon Darcy, said: “Decision-makers are at risk of repeating the mistakes of previous infrastructure problems if the public isn’t engaged early enough in infrastructure planning.”
Panel member, strategic and digital planning advisor at Pinsent Masons, Dr Sue Chadwick, said “There are numerous opportunities available for the use of data analytics in solving problems effectively that have previously been time-consuming. Balanced against this is the risk of ethical breaches that are harmful to the communities affected and could result in an erosion of public trust, with a chilling effect on the use of the technologies. I’d like to be part of mitigating the risk of those breaches.”
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