Responsible Innovation

New technologies are being developed and deployed at a fantastic pace, with the potential to change how we work, how we engage with others, and how we experience the world around us. They can unlock new opportunities, and reshape existing industries. 

From artificial intelligence to the distributed web, open source to quantum computing, we bring a curious and constructive approach, and help leaders understand and evaluate the tradeoffs and make sense of a chaotic and emergent field of innovation.

Amplify Public AI

Bridging government, civil society, and academia to increase the capacity of cross-sector leaders to build a more public AI ecosystem

Community-Aligned AI Benchmarks

Reimagining the technical machine learning benchmarks that drive model development to reflect and encode public values

Defining Technologies of Our Time

Making it easier for policymakers to draft tech legislation with a collection of legal definitions for emerging tech terms

Rising Civic AI Leaders

A program providing recent tech-to-government civic AI leaders with the knowledge, tools, and support to navigate government processes

Insights and Events

Reclaiming AI for Development

Reclaiming AI for development through community-aligned benchmarks can steer innovation toward resilience and meaningful impact.

Reimagining AI in the Wake of USAID

In this “Cold War moment” of AI competition with China, we must remain committed to international development as an investment in soft power.

Feeding the Future

We don’t just need smarter tech, we need smarter goals. Take the survey so your insight can shape the future of AI in food security.

Intelligence in the Public Interest

Aspen Digital is leveraging public interest AI benchmarking as a new way to give communities a voice in AI research priorities.

Shared Futures

Shared Futures: The AI Forum brings together cultural architects to explore how AI is reshaping the way we live, create, and connect.

Public AI at the Action Summit

Aspen Digital gathered researchers, advocates, and builders of public AI alongside the Paris AI Action Summit.