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🔶活動摘要
人工智慧（AI）在全球居住危機的脈絡下被視為是強而有力的工具，且被視為是回應此危機錯綜復雜成因之關鍵解方。世界銀行認為「AI 可以彌補全球住房赤字」（Walley et al 2023），而在澳洲，前新南威爾斯州居住部長（Housing Minister） Paul Scully 則堅稱：「除非政府與業界立即採用 AI 技術，否則達成供應目標的機率為零」（Fuller 2023）。這些宣稱的邏輯是，AI 能透過提升效率、實現優化和更好地運用數據分析來緩解居住危機。包括英國政府在規劃過程中使用的「 Extract」及澳洲新南威爾斯州在開發規劃案中的AI使用，皆顯示政府部門對採用AI的支持，且期望能加速審查流程和交屋。
然而 AI 亦可能加劇既存之居住不平等、導致隱私風險、鞏固私人利益而非公共福祉，並以技術決定中立性掩蓋居世代間的不平等（Safransky 2020）。美國的 AI 房客篩選程式 SafeRent 給予非裔和西班牙裔申請者較白人更低的分數，直接損害前者獲得租房的機會，並因此被提告（Rhoades 2024）。此外，租屋平台過度收集數據的問題，也已經成為澳洲監管機構的關注焦點。
本次演講將探討 AI 與相關科技如何在居住危機中透過論述與實踐被動員，呈現「居住體系的地景」（landscape of housing systems）以協助我們分析 AI 在居住場域的運用，並嘗試將AI視為認知者（cognisers）和協作者（collaborators），以獲得更深入的分析以及開啟新的介入與抵抗途徑。
｜講者｜
Dr. Sophia Maalsen （雪梨大學建築、設計與規劃學院高級講師
Sophia Maalsen 博士是雪梨大學建築、設計與規劃學院的高級講師，曾擔任澳洲研究委員會傑出青年研究員（ARC DECRA Fellow）。
她的研究興趣集中於運算邏輯和技術（包括 AI）的轉譯如何被應用於解決住房負擔能力和創新等問題，同時也關注技術在租客倡議中的潛在作用。她的研究主要位於數位與物質（digital and material）的交集處，涵蓋城市空間與治理、住房及女性主義等領域，特別關注數位中介如何重新配置這些空間中的關係。
｜日期｜2026年1月12日（一） 14:00-16:00
｜地點｜國立臺灣大學地理環境資源學系405室
｜備註｜
● 演講將以英語進行。
● 本場講座僅限現場參與，需事先線上報名。
主辦單位｜
國立陽明交通大學科技與社會研究所
國立陽明交通大學文化研究國際中心，「21世紀環境危機與多物種正義：邁向多於人的解殖」研究群
協辦單位｜
國立臺灣大學地理環境資源學系
國家科學及技術委員會
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🔶Abstract
The housing sector is “on the verge of a transformative revolution as AI emerges as a powerful tool” with the technology touted as a solution to the myriad of factors driving a global housing crisis (Housing Sector UK 2025). The World Bank claims that “AI can address the global housing deficit” (Walley et al 2023), while in Australia, former NSW Housing Minister Paul Scully argued that there is “zero per cent chance of meeting supply unless the government and sector immediately adopt AI technology” (Fuller 2023). The logic of these claims is that AI can help solve the housing crisis through increased efficiency, optimisation, and better use of data analytics. This is exemplified by Government endorsed use of AI in planning such as the Extract tool in the UK and the NSW AI in planning program, both intended to speed up the development approval process and housing delivery. Yet there is concern that the application of AI may exacerbate existing inequity in the housing system, present privacy risks, entrench private over public interest and further entrench intergenerational inequality under a guise of tech determined neutrality (Safransky 2020). For example, AI tenant screening apps such as US-based SafeRent have been taken to court over consistently scoring black and Hispanic applicants lower than white applicants, directly negatively impacting their access to housing (Rhoades 2024), while the overcollection of data by tenant application platforms has been a site of regulatory attention in Australia.
In this presentation I will look at the way that technologies such as AI are being mobilised in discourse and in practice to address the housing crisis. I will identify some core gaps in our understanding that we need to pay attention to and present a landscape of the housing system that can work as a lens help us think through the application of AI in housing, before offering two possible ways to move research on housing and AI forward. I also propose a methodological orientation that will enable us to open up new ways of thinking about the impacts of AI in housing. Advancing beyond conventional approaches I draw inspiration from Hayles (2017), Maalsen (2023) and Iapaolo and Lynch (2025) to position AI as cognisers and collaborators in producing the housing system but which also opens up novel ways for intervention and resistance.
Speaker:
Dr. Sophia Maalsen (Senior Lecturer at School of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney）
Sophia Maalsen is a former ARC DECRA Fellow and senior lecturer in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney. She is interested in how the translation of computational logics and technologies, including AI, are being applied to address issues of housing affordability and innovation, as well as looking at the potential role of technologies in tenant advocacy. Her research is predominantly situated at the intersection of the digital and material across urban spaces and governance, housing, and feminism, with particular interest in the digital mediation and reconfiguration of relationships across these spaces.
Date: January 12, 2026 (Mon), 14:00-16:00
Venue: Room 405, Department of Geography, National Taiwan University
Notes:
● The lecture will be conducted in English.
● This lecture is for in-person attendance only and requires online pre-registration.
Organizers:
Institute of Science, Technology and Society, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
"Environmental Crises and Multi-species Justice in the 21st Century: Toward Decolonization Beyond the Human" Research Cluster, International Center for Cultural Studies (ICCS), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Co-organizers:
Department of Geography, National Taiwan University
National Science and Technology Council (NSTC)
