The Spanish administration is obsessed with AI. Granada and its broken street monitoring is the last test

Granada has just embrace a new system to monitor in real time the status of its urban elements. One based, of course, in artificial intelligence. A car, Lidar sensors, high precision GPS and a municipal management platform responsible for collecting this data for later treatment.

The news comes a few weeks after the Traffic light implementation with AI to regulate the state of traffic in one of the most chaotic roundabouts in the city. They are evidence of an obsession of the Spanish administration of a time to this part: automate processes with AI.

That road is broken. The damage on public roads are inevitable. And it is the obligation of the State responsible for repairing them with immediacy. In fact, if you suffer an accident for poor state of some road, you are protected by article 106 of the Spanish Constitution.

This establishes that any individual will have the right to be compensated for any injury that he and his assets suffer whenever the injury is “a consequence of the functioning of public services.”

The plan. Granada wants to be aware of the damage in its urban environment, both on roads and in the rest of its streets: painted, infrastructure in poor condition, damage of all kinds.

To do this, in collaboration with Innovasur, it will implement a car equipped with hardware capable of capturing in real time the status of the urban environment (through cameras, Lidar and GPS), sending this data to a management platform responsible for monitoring the information.

The objective is to monitor large surfaces in a short time, and provide complete information to the city to expedite operational efficiency.

AI, AI and more. Granada’s plan joins the wide list of Spanish cities using AI for things. Cordova already regulates Some of its traffic lights with AI to detect pedestrians with disabilities, Santander has one of the greater urban infrastructures related to the world, and Valencia already proves artificial intelligence functions to prevent natural disasters.

Spain is not at the forefront in AIalthough we do not stop seeing new projects related to it. The main doubt? The one we always have with AI: It is not trustworthy.

The Spanish transpiés with AI. The Ábalos case is one of the most recent and sounded in this “bad” cloud. Some of the transcripts of the statements of Judge Leopoldo Puente or the former Minister José Luis Ábalos were made with AI tools. The results were absolutely terrible.

Something even more serious happened recently with the National Police: I had been using an AI for six years to detect false complaints. An AI whose reliability Now we know it was quite debatable.

Modernizing administration is useful and necessary. As long as we base these tools on reliable methods.

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