Public Interest Technology

The Challenge

Our Response

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

Insights and Events

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.

Feeding the Future

Most AI for food security projects focus on food production, but findings from Aspen Digital’s global survey of food practitioners reveal that key breakthroughs are needed in other aspects of food security.

Benchmarks 101

An accessible resource for understanding how artificial intelligence systems are evaluated through benchmarks.