The topic that our group chose to discuss is how smart cities can develop to operate differently based on how and where they are implemented. These differences can come in the forms of bias, lack of innovation, or proper implementation. The cities we are going to focus on and compare are San Francisco, Cape Town, Kenya, and Nairobi, Kenya, the capital of the country. Recently, the government has heavily invested in new technologies around the city to help stop and limit terrorist attacks and civil unrest so that tourists and their own people feel safer. We want to research to see how their AI has developed in these cities and observe how the population has reacted to this. We also want to research if this new technology actually limited terrorist attacks or civil unrest in Kenya, and see what data the government is collecting. We believe that by comparing and contrasting how the same AI innovations have developed and are being used differently in separate places, we will get a firm depiction of the social construct of technology at work. This theory is based on the idea the technology itself does not have a goal on how to shape society but the humans who use it as a tool do. Also, with the evolution of AI technologies comes the evolution of surveillance. For this reason, Foucault’s framework is another idea we associate with this topic. Foucault believes that surveillance has a powerful role in society. He references this when explaining his goal for the panopticon saying that the intended purpose was to get individuals to “turn their gaze inwards and discipline themselves and produce a modified behavior, thus making it unnecessary to actually practice repressive forms of power” (Purdy, 2015, p. 6). In my opinion, Foucault believes surveillance if used properly is better served as a deterrence rather than a tool to wield against individuals. AI is the next step in surveillance and it is important that it is properly implemented. An example of this interaction between crime and AI can be seen in the Coded bias film. In the film, the UK sanctioned biometric scans for street use which seemed to instantly have an impact on police interactions.