New York beaten for title of worlds smartest city by an old rival and a new-money upstart

London calling.New York has missed out on the title of the world’s most intelligent city for AI use, being beaten out by perennial rival London, and upstart Dubai in a first-of-its-kind study.The British capital scored top in a list assessing the impact of AI on 61 of the world’s biggest cities in the inaugural Intelligent Cities Index published on Monday by consulting giant Boston Consulting Group.The index scored every city across five AI-related areas, including adoption of the tech, outcomes, strategy, how well governments put their AI plans into action, and broader “enablers” such as funding, talent, and infrastructure.Based on these scores, the cities were sorted into four AI school report-type scores: leading, accelerating, emerging or developing.London topped the list, scoring highest of all for resident outcomes from economic opportunity to quality of life.Dubai was second, with New York City third, Washington DC fourth, and Amsterdam rounding out the top five.The study also found that despite New Yorkers being eager adopters of AI, they are far less optimistic about its outcomes than respondents in many European capitals, including London, Berlin and Dublin.Perhaps surprisingly, San Francisco, the epicenter of the AI boom, only came in seventh in the list of intelligent cities, the third of five US metros to make the top 20.Boston, the home of the company behind the survey, came in 15th, just ahead of Los Angeles in 16th.Three Chinese cities made up the top 20, including Shanghai (8th), Beijing (9th), and Shenzhen (14th)....