 Thanks for joining us here in Geneva for the AI for Good Global Summit 2018. My guest is Bill Perduto, he's the mayor of the city of Pittsburgh in the USA. Thank you very much for joining us. Well, thank you for the invitation. Bill, you were here in Geneva to present your city's strategy in terms of resiliency. What does that mean exactly? Well, cities are like people. We have to plan for what could and may happen. So when we look at a city's resiliency strategy, it's really based on two things. Number one is what are the stresses, everyday occurrences that are happening that you need to address because if you don't, they may become bigger than what you can handle. And number two, what are the shocks, the things that may happen, whether their economic collapse or manmade disasters or changes because of climate change? And what are you doing to prepare for those in the future? So within the city, we put together a resiliency plan that looks out over the next 50 years. But we've taken a part of that the next 12 years and we've looked at nine specific areas and their areas around infrastructure and people. And we've basically said, what do we need to do to assure that we can make Pittsburgh a city for all as we see this transition of the economy that's happening throughout the world? And it's all part of your vision to ensure that Pittsburgh become a smart city, a city where everyone is happy, safe and blossoms really. And really looks at the potential of the opportunity of people. Everything from pre-K programs and making it universal for every three and four year old within our city, to programs to assure affordable housing so that as people start to move in, nobody has to move out. Investments in our public transit system, investments in our green infrastructure to be able to keep up with climate change so that as storms become more prevalent and even more water and snow is landing, that the ground itself is able to absorb it. So how can you use technology and AI in particular to achieve this vision? Well, you know, if you're not measuring, you're just practicing. So using AI means being able to combine large amounts of data in very practical ways to make sure you're getting results. You want to be able to make sure every three and four year old has the opportunity for pre-K, test to see what the reading scores are in third grade. Continue to test and look and see what those programs have been able to accomplish. We've been able to take something as simple as fire protection and combine it with research from Carnegie Mellon and identify out of 24,000 properties in the city of Pittsburgh, the 58 that are most likely to catch on fire. In an eight month period, 50 of them had a fire alarm. And the benefits obviously saving lives costs as well, I imagine. Well costs and being more efficient with your dollars. So after those 58, we have 250 additional properties that are on the watch list. So we send fire inspectors out to make sure that the sprinkler system works, to make sure that the damper works so that smoke doesn't travel from unit to unit. And doing those common sense approaches and making it a priority through predictive analytics allows you to be much smarter with tax dollars. And that's a typical example of how AI can be used to deliver the UN sustainable development goals. That's something that's dear to you as a mayor. Out of doubt, so as we look to reduce our carbon footprint, we want to be able to find ways to do it the smartest way possible. Not simply replacing light bulbs and replacing antiquated light bulbs with LED, but looking to see where there are corridors of opportunity so the public can join in as well, see their utility bills go down, lower amount of carbon dependency and at the same time being able to use technology as a means to deliver it. Bill, I understand it's your first time at the AI for Good Global Summit. Last year there was a delegation from Pittsburgh. Why did you want to be here this year? Well, there's a couple of reasons, obviously any mayor wants to promote their city. So with a lot that's happened in Pittsburgh from the 1970s when Carnegie Mellon University coined the term artificial intelligence to the 80s when they created the program in robotics to what the University of Pittsburgh has been doing in UPMC, we have become, we have come back to the global stage when it comes to artificial intelligence, robotics and predictive analytics. So I'm here to let the rest of the world know Pittsburgh is back, but at the same time I believe there's something that Pittsburgh can share because when we led the second industrial revolution when electricity was able to create massive amounts of steel and Pittsburgh was the leader. We created air that was dangerous to breathe. We created water that was poisonous to drink and we created the greatest disparity between the haves and the have-nots in American history. And then we had to work for decades to solve those problems. As we go into this next industrial revolution, the fourth industrial revolution, we can take lessons from places like Pittsburgh to assure that we don't make the mistakes up front, but that we are putting in place policies that will minimize the negative impacts as artificial intelligence grows into the next great economy. And it will be in places like Pittsburgh, not Silicon Valley, where those lessons were learned that we won't make the same mistakes twice. Bill, thank you very much for talking to us today. Thank you.