Based at Cornell Tech's Urban Tech Hub in New York City, The Agentic City bridges the gap between high-level AI governance vision and on-the-ground municipal implementation.
Based at Cornell Tech's Urban Tech Hub in New York City, The Agentic City bridges the gap between high-level AI governance vision and on-the-ground municipal implementation. We help cities envision, specify, and build capabilities to address strategic AI opportunities and challenges on the horizon.
Responsible AI means AI that is Secure, Accountable, Fair, and Effective (SAFE). Signals is the initiative's foresight engine: a crowdsourced map of agentic AI arriving in cities, clustered into the trends and forecasts that set our research agenda.
Define the 2–3 year agentic AI agenda for cities by identifying the most important questions for strategic planning — translating global and national AI governance to the city level.
Leverage university expertise to define and support prototyping and pilots by participating cities — turning promising ideas into working demonstrations.
Define the frameworks, standards, and accountability mechanisms needed for responsible deployment of urban AI over the 2–3 year horizon.
Identify pathways from early experiments toward robust, extensible frameworks — turning isolated successes into scalable municipal capability.
Signals, trends, and forecasts are updated continuously by the Agentic City research team and a network of contributors.