Plus, joy as a form of resilience ✨ and tips for making friends 🧑🤝🧑
| February 22, 2024 | | PODCAST | The Path to Ethical A.I. | Pandora’s box is open — artificial intelligence is showing up in almost every part of our lives, but society has hardly had time to prepare or put guardrails in place to manage risk. How do we aim this technology towards the most beneficial places and away from the most dangerous ones? Hear from a panel of experts as they share their hopes and fears for A.I. and discuss what can realistically be done by private, public, and civil society sectors to keep it in check. Lila Ibrahim, COO of the Google A.I. company DeepMind, joins social science professor Alondra Nelson and IBM’s head of privacy and trust Christina Montgomery for a conversation moderated by CNBC tech journalist Deirdre Bosa. Together, they explore what it will take to harness the positive potential of A.I. while mitigating its dangers. 🎧 Listen | | 20 YEARS OF IDEAS | The Surprising Power of Joy | What do we lose out on when we believe that beauty and delight are superfluous, that they’re luxuries rather than necessities? At the 2019 Aspen Ideas Festival, designer Ingrid Fetell Lee took to the stage for a presentation on the critical importance of joy. She explained that small moments of joy are often the first to go when we're stressed or in a crisis, but they're actually a vital tool to restore emotional well-being. Watch Fetell Lee explain the difference between happiness and joy, how our surroundings impact our health, and why joy is a common denominator that can help bridge social division. 🎥 Watch
| | ARTICLE | How to Make — And Keep — Friends | Our social worlds are a lot safer than we believe. “People are way less likely to reject you than you think they are,” says psychologist Marisa Franco, who spoke at the Festival in 2022. So what are the main misconceptions we have about making friends, and how are those holding us back from healthy and long-lasting friendships? Learn what the science tells us about attachment and how longstanding perceptions of relationships might be inflaming the loneliness crisis. 💡 Read | | FESTIVAL | Help Us Celebrate 20 Years | Hear from some of the world’s most brilliant leaders and thinkers as they engage in deep discussion of the ideas that will shape tomorrow and help us understand today, all against the awe-inspiring backdrop of our Rocky Mountain campus. Prices will increase on March 28, so don’t miss out on this last chance to save on your 2024 pass! | |
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