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Michael Batty

Auckland, London
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Chairman, CASA (Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis) & Bartlett Professor of Planning at UCL (University College London)
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Steering open-source AI to accelerate the sustainable development goals

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By Min Chen, Kai Wu, Prajal Pradhan, Cameron Allen, Stefano Nativi, Klaus Hubacek, Alexey Voinov, Felix Creutzig, Tatiana Filatova, Niklas Boers, Michael Meadows, Frank Biermann, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, John Scott Ludden, Maria Noemi Paradiso, María Sol Paradiso, Michael Batty, Huadong Guo, Min Cao, Peng Hou, Guonian Lü, Peilong Ma
| Nature Verified
While the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is advancing rapidly, the open-source paradigm offers key pathways and potential risks for accelerating progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals and beyond. This comment introduces four governance actions that consider how sustainability, evaluation, safety, and cooperation can be integrated into the transformation of open-source AI, thereby reducing uncertainties and challenges posed by open-source AI for sustainable global prosperity.
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Mobile phone data show spatial and socioeconomic inequalities in hospital utilization

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By Jizhe Xia, Pei Ye, Di Zhang, Zihao Wu, Xiana Chen, Qingquan Li, Carlo Ratti, Michael Batty, Ziqian Ye, Chen Zhong, Yang Yue, Wei Tu, Longyan Pan, Qiye Deng
| Nature Verified
Abstract Hospital bypass behaviour, where patients forgo nearby hospitals for distant providers, challenges the efficiency of healthcare systems. However, its socioeconomic status (SES) drivers and equity implications remain poorly understood. Here we analyse 96 million mobile phone users across 11 Chinese cities integrated with behavioural models quantifying the trade-off between spatial proximity and hospital quality.
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The spatiotemporal scaling laws of urban population dynamics - Nature Communications

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By Bo Huang, Michael Batty, Qi Wang, Xingye Tan
| Nature Verified
Abstract Human mobility is becoming increasingly complex in urban environments. However, our fundamental understanding of urban population dynamics, particularly the pulsating fluctuations occurring across different locations and timescales, remains limited. Here, we use mobile device data from large cities and regions worldwide combined with a detrended fractal analysis to uncover a universal spatiotemporal scaling law that governs urban population fluctuations.
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