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Greg Lindsay (he/him)

Urban Tech Fellow, Cornell Tech

Greg Lindsay is a non-resident senior fellow of MIT’s Future Urban Collectives Lab, Arizona State University’s Threatcasting Lab, and the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.

He was previously a 2022-2023 urban tech fellow at Cornell Tech’s Jacobs Institute, where he explored the implications of AI and augmented reality at urban scale in The Augmented City: Seeing Through Disruption (2024).

He is also the author of The Future of Generative AI in in Architecture, Design, and Engineering (2024), a report published by Cornell Tech’s Urban Tech Hub in conjunction with the Innovation Design Consortium. He is also a two-time Jeopardy! champion (and the only human to go undefeated against IBM’s pioneering artificial intelligence, Watson).

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FWD50

The good, the bad, and the weird

July 7, 20269:55 AM EDT – 10:20 AM EDT
PORT STAGE
English
The good news is that agentic AI offers governments an opportunity to dissolve​ the silos and​ legacy systems that have throttled public service for years. Urban futurist Greg Lindsay sees​ new capabilities for planning, operations, and​ adaptation. Done right, this may be how the state​ finally gets better at being itself. See More.