As we begin a new year, Aspen Digital’s Emerging Tech Team put together the following retrospective on our work from 2024 and our plans for 2025.
Looking Ahead to 2025
In 2025, the Emerging Tech Team will be focusing on AI futures worth building. We help people “flex their hope muscles” by convening diverse networks and creating resources that make it easier to make technology work for ALL of us.
We like to say that our work is fundamentally about cultivating AI-ready publics and public-ready AI:
Cultivating AI-Ready Publics
- Rising Civic AI Leaders: Helping new-to-government technologists in states and cities across America navigate the policy world, work with civil society, and expand their network of peers and mentors.
- Defining Technologies of Our Time: A new initiative compiling legal definitions for emerging tech with analysis from experts to help policymakers craft better, more future-proof legislation.
Cultivating Public-Ready AI
- Community-Aligned AI Benchmarks: Building technical and policy mechanisms to incentivize the development of AI systems that focus on what the public actually wants from AI.
- Amplify Public AI: Coordinating an international community of builders and advocates to produce AI infrastructures that are publicly accessible, accountable, and sustainable.
