Plus—Can we make social media better?
| July 13, 2023 | | Best of the Fest | At the 2023 Aspen Ideas Festival, we dug into some of the most important and fascinating issues of our time, from rebuilding trust in our institutions and the promise and peril of A.I. to the ingredients of a good life and the emerging geopolitical order — plus so much more!
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| | PODCAST | Supreme Court Review | Questions and controversy continue to swirl around the Supreme Court’s latest decisions on affirmative action, LGBTQ rights, student loans, and more. Hear from three leaders in constitutional law who have closely read the full opinions and dissents and placed the decisions in legal context. Georgetown Law professor Neal Katyal, Stanford Law professor Pamela Karlan and Clark Neily from the Cato Institute join law professor and journalist Jeffrey Rosen for an in-depth discussion about the justices’ arguments and what we can expect to see from the court in the future. Listen | | INTERVIEW | Building Better Social Media | Can technology bolster democracy? MIT’s Deb Roy thinks so. As the Director of the Center for Constructive Communication, his work focuses on developing civic communication spaces as alternatives to social media. “In our view, the proper role of A.I. is to create tools that empower human-led processes,” he says. We caught up with him about building healthier digital forums, how humans and machines might work best together, and why A.I. is a critical tool for civic engagement. Read
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