Smart Human Rights Cities

This collaboration among the School of Law, College of Social Science and Humanities, and the City of Boston tackles the old problem of centering community in public policy while navigating the trade-offs of a new technology frontier: AI and other technologies employed to create “smart cities” that increase the risk of overreach. Our core deliverable is implementable frameworks for municipal governments that leverage human rights norms and advances in smart cities theory and practice into fiscal and operational guidelines for application of artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives.

READ: Human Rights and the Smarter City, Open Global Rights (July 1, 2025)