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The Aspen Ideas Festival is the nation's premier, public gathering place for leaders from around the globe and across many disciplines to engage in deep and inquisitive discussion of the ideas and issues that both shape our lives and challenge our times.

We constantly strive to engage and surprise each other, our inventiveness giving us reason
On Genius
Unlike the internet, AI is not a new industry
The Aspen Institute produces the Aspen Ideas Festival in concert with its partner, The Atlantic.
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They invited America to join them via FB live, and through their spontaneous town hall
Unlike the internet, AI is not a new industry
On Genius
State-sponsored cyber-spies and transnational organized crime groups pose urgent threats
We constantly strive to engage and surprise each other, our inventiveness giving us reason
Suddenly, machines are learning from gigantic expanding data sets at rapid rates.
The Second Mountain: The Next Big Challenge in Your Life
At an alarming rate, militaries from around the globe are employing AI
Can such a business-led effort toa promote carbon dividends
How did we get here? How are Western values shifting? What might the future hold?
How did these Cold War-era plans come together
Most of us face the desire to be creative within busy, scheduled lives.
Hacking, Disinformation, and a New Cold War with Russia
The high seas comprise 40 percent of the surface of our planet
What groups are most frequently targeted today?
Economic Policy
Markets Can Solve the Global Energy and Climate Challenge, if We Let Them
The Future of Human-Robot Interaction
Aspen Ideas Festival Young Adult Forum
What’s the state of this historically fraught relationship?
What might we learn from the past about the current state of politics?
For those of us who will be hired, what skills should we possess?
On Founders
How does culture help us learn from history and inform today’s struggles?
What, if anything, confers democratic legitimacy on foundations?
Susan Page is Washington bureau chief of USA Today.
The America I Have Come to Know through StoryCorps
The tough and interesting question is: How can we fix it?
Against a backdrop of rising populism, weakening of traditional political parties
What do they think it will take for meaningful change to happen?
Managing Through Disruption
What Would Madison Think
Lying, Bullshitting, and Truth Telling: When is the Truth the Truth
Time to start listening to the growing set of young entrepreneurs
Should we ever intentionally drive a species extinct?
Chicago architect Jeanne Gang is one of the most celebrated architects in her adopted city
What can leaders of institutions do to restore faith in institutions?
Privacy Paradox experiment on WNYC’s “Note to Self,” along with ProPublica senior reporter
What constitutes a “good job”? What roles should business and gov. play in creating them?
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Jeffrey Goldberg, Interviewer, Lindsey Graham
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jeffrey Goldberg, Moderator, Mitch Landrieu
Sam Kargbo, Tom Kenyon, Ron Klain, Brian Koll, Seema Yasmin, Moderator
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