ABSTRACT
In our era, most people have serious misgivings about the feasibility and more importantly, the desirability of dubbing the actions of a machine as intelligent behavior. These people generally distrust the concept of machines that approach our own human intelligence. In our culture, an intelligent machine is immediately assumed to be a bad machine. As soon as intelligence is ascribed to the artificial, some people believe that the artifact will become evil and strip us of our humanistic values. Intelligence is a behavior. It implies the capacity to add to, delete from, and use stored information. An environmental humanism might only be attainable in cooperation with robots that have been thought to be inhuman devices, but in fact are devices that can respond intelligently to the tiny, individual, constantly changing bits of information that reflect the identity of each urbanite as well as the coherence of the city.
