
In a sense. Edge AI means that when it's deployed, it's deployed closest to the people. But a Civic AI also needs to be correctable by the people they affect. If it's a surveillance CCTV, it's on the edge, that's true. But if there's no way for people to correct it once they suffer some harm from that monitoring, then it's still not a Civic AI. A system is not civic unless the people affected by it can also steer and correct it.