Sep 15, 2026 · 38 min · 11 segments
How can cities become healthier, safer, and more resilient in a rapidly warming world? In this rerun of Reimagining Government, host Nick Thompson revisits a conversation with Eleni Myrivili, the…
Eleni MyriviliGuestCandice Willis-WilsonHost
Gabrielle BarronHostNick ThompsonHostI was just reading in the newspaper that a high school in Georgia got a $52 million football stadium.
So if we can invest $52 million in American football for a high school team, I think we can navigate and think through cooling systems.
And so the community out there is really upset, but they don't have the language.
on an already broken and devastated system, but it's impacting low-income families.
I truly appreciate you flagging that and talking about the factors around AI and these big data systems and how they are pulling from the economies and resources around them, but they're typically planted in low-income neighborhoods.
They're typically planted around people who don't have the means, don't have the information, don't have the systems and infrastructures to make noise about it.
It's a different way to continue to harm already vulnerable communities.
So I really appreciated that flag and I appreciated how you talked about the importance of that.
Yeah, it's a little scary because nobody seems to want to regulate these things.
And, you know, a lot of them, I see things that provide solutions for cities that are super important or provide solutions for biodiversity and how we can save, you know, really super important ecosystems.
Or how can we deal with water resources, which are really, really crucial And we can plug in AI to give us the right kind of solutions for things that otherwise it would take five years or 10 years to figure out how to deal with.
I was just reading in the newspaper that a high school in Georgia got a $52 million football stadium.
So if we can invest $52 million in American football for a high school team, I think we can navigate and think through cooling systems.
And so the community out there is really upset, but they don't have the language.
on an already broken and devastated system, but it's impacting low-income families.
I truly appreciate you flagging that and talking about the factors around AI and these big data systems and how they are pulling from the economies and resources around them, but they're typically planted in low-income neighborhoods.
They're typically planted around people who don't have the means, don't have the information, don't have the systems and infrastructures to make noise about it.
It's a different way to continue to harm already vulnerable communities.
So I really appreciated that flag and I appreciated how you talked about the importance of that.
Yeah, it's a little scary because nobody seems to want to regulate these things.
And, you know, a lot of them, I see things that provide solutions for cities that are super important or provide solutions for biodiversity and how we can save, you know, really super important ecosystems.
Or how can we deal with water resources, which are really, really crucial And we can plug in AI to give us the right kind of solutions for things that otherwise it would take five years or 10 years to figure out how to deal with.
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