The Challenge
New technologies are changing how we work, engage with others, and experience the world around us as technology breakthroughs accelerate, how can we ensure that innovation is designed and deployed for the issues most pressing to humanity? What are the frameworks that ensure emerging tools reflect and encode public values.
Our Response
Aspen Digital’s Public Interest Technology workstream explores ways to help leaders understand and evaluate the tradeoffs of emergent field of innovation. From public AI to benchmarking, we bridge divides among government, civil society, and academia to build a more public AI ecosystem. We advance public interest aligned technology to foster a healthier digital economy that advances shared prosperity.
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
Emerging Tech Primers
Definitions, in plain terms, to help those left out of emerging tech engage in the debate, design, and use of everything from machine learning to quantum computing
Public AI University Chapters
Public AI University Chapters will equip students to shape the AI ecosystem to be more accessible, accountable, and sustainable.
Insights and Events
It’s not the speed, it’s the direction
After refusing to join hands earlier this year, it seems that the leaders of the world’s biggest artificial intelligence (AI) research labs have found something they can agree on. Last month, the CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepMind, Microsoft, and SpaceXAI (previously xAI) have called for “pacing” AI research. Many people, including these leaders, claim that…
Another AI is Possible
Hear from builders and thinkers reimagining what data centers could be, from tiny distributed networks to public-owned utilities.
How Should You Define AI?
Aspen Digital hosted a panel for Congressional staff on the Hill on different strategies for defining AI in the policy context.
Ingredients for Land Governance & Food Security
Aspen Digital hosted a virtual roundtable digging into challenges surrounding land governance in the US context.
Reboot: Global AI Watch
An interview with Aspen Digital’s director of emerging technology B Cavello about institutional capacity and the role of AI in food security.
Defining Technologies of Our Time
This handbook offers an accessible, easy to use entry point for grappling with the question of how to define AI in a legal context.