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IF 7 Q1 ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC
Simon Elias Bibri
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数字平台的计算能力呈指数级增长,预示着混合智能的新时代。最近,人们对元宇宙有潜力解锁混合智能充满热情和炒作。这是基于这样一种观点,即元宇宙代表了物联网(AIoT)和扩展现实(XR)的应用融合,在城市中以平台为媒介的日常生活体验的独特特征方面与城市主义相交。然而,元宇宙中的社会互动及其产生的社会组织是由算法调解和控制的,因此服从于——一个梦想——完全的逻辑秩序。这引发了大量与用户个人、大脑和生物特征数据的系统收集和算法处理有关的问题,即深刻的社会影响,也是最难预测的道德影响。因此,本研究分析和综合了大量关于AIoT和XR技术、神经技术和纳米生物技术在元宇宙领域的融合的科学文献,以推导出一个新的元宇宙概念框架,作为平台城市化的虚拟模型。此外,它还探讨了这些融合技术在元宇宙及其他领域的关键挑战和风险。本研究采用专题分析和综合的方法来处理多学科文献。该分析确定了七个主题:(1)平台化,(2)平台城市主义,(3)虚拟城市主义、(4)XR技术、(5)AIoT技术、(6)神经技术和(7)纳米生物技术。综合证据表明,尽管神经技术和纳米生物技术有许多好处和前景,但如果不加以控制,它们会通过支撑元宇宙的算法中介的黑匣子,对人类用户造成伤害,从而引发争议和争议。这些发现有助于引导元宇宙通过坚持和维护道德原则,以及以有意义的方式利用其潜在的颠覆性技术,为人类的繁荣和福祉做出贡献。它们还帮助学者、从业者和政策制定者评估这些技术的利弊,尤其是其不可避免的后果。
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The Metaverse as a Virtual Model of Platform Urbanism: Its Converging AIoT, XReality, Neurotech, and Nanobiotech and Their Applications, Challenges, and Risks
With their exponentially rising computational power, digital platforms are heralding a new era of hybrid intelligence. There has recently been much enthusiasm and hype that the Metaverse has the potential to unlock hybrid intelligence. This is premised on the idea that the Metaverse represents an applied convergence of Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) and Extended Reality (XR) that intersects with urbanism in terms of the distinctive features of platform-mediated everyday life experiences in cities. However, social interaction and its resulting social organization in the Metaverse are mediated and governed by algorithms and thus submitted to—a dream of—complete logical ordering. This raises a plethora of concerns related to the systemic collection and algorithmic processing of users’ personal, brain, and biometric data, i.e., profound societal—and the hardest to predict ethical—implications. Therefore, this study analyzes and synthesizes a large body of scientific literature on the unfolding convergence of AIoT and XR technologies, neurotechnology, and nanobiotechnology in the realm of the Metaverse in order to derive a novel conceptual framework for the Metaverse as an envisioned virtual model of platform urbanism. Further, it examines the key challenges and risks of these converging technologies in relation to the Metaverse and beyond. This study employs thematic analysis and synthesis to cope with multidisciplinary literature. The analysis identifies seven themes: (1) Platformization, (2) platform urbanism, (3) virtual urbanism, (4) XR technologies, (5) AIoT technologies, (6) neurotechnology, and (7) nanobiotechnology. The synthesized evidence reveals that, while neurotechnology and nanobiotechnology have numerous benefits and promising prospects, they raise contentions and controversies stemming from their potential use to inflict harm to human users—if left unchecked—through the black box of the algorithmic mediation underpinning the Metaverse. The findings serve to steer the Metaverse to contribute to human flourishing and wellbeing by adhering to and upholding ethical principles as well as leveraging its underlying disruptive technologies in meaningful ways. They also aid scholars, practitioners, and policymakers in assessing the pros and cons of these technologies, especially their inevitable ramifications.
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Smart Cities
Smart Cities Multiple-
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11.20
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期刊介绍: Smart Cities (ISSN 2624-6511) provides an advanced forum for the dissemination of information on the science and technology of smart cities, publishing reviews, regular research papers (articles) and communications in all areas of research concerning smart cities. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible, with no restriction on the maximum length of the papers published so that all experimental results can be reproduced.
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