Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Smart Cities-Figure 4. Influence of AI in the development of smart cities by respondents age

<p>Respondents were asked to indicate how they evaluate the influence of AI in the development of intelligent cities. In order to fully understand the concept of smart cities, the definition of smart city given by Caragliu (2009) was given to the respondents. It is presented in section 2. On question 6 two-way analysis was used to determine the difference by age and gender. There was no statistically significant interaction between groups as determined by two-way ANOVA F (3, 106) = 8.675, p value&gt;0.05 (p=.387). The assumption of homogeneity of variance was tested using the Brown-Forsythe Test. There were statistically significant differences by gender (F=2.169, p&lt;0.05) and by age (F=30.885, p&lt;0.05). More than 9 in ten (almost 94%) consider AI to be important (50%) or very important (43.8%) while just a few (6.2%) recall a moderate importance for smart cities development. Female participants scored significantly higher (M=4.60, SD=.49) than male participants (M=4.27, SD=.62) on question 6 &bdquo;Generally speaking, how do you assess the influence of AI in the development of intelligent cities&rdquo;. At the same question: the 41-50 age group scored the highest score followed by the 18-25 age group (M=4.40, SD=.49). The 26-30 age group scored lower than the 18-25 age group (M=4.37, SD=.48) and significantly higher than the 31-40 age group (Figure 4).</p>