Shared Futures 2026 - How AI Can Help Us Find the New Agora

Shared Futures 2026 - How AI Can Help Us Find the New Agora

What does it take to make a city more human? Carlo explores how AI can help us understand the changing rhythms of public space—and design urban environments that revive civic life Carlo Ratti, Director, MIT Senseable City Lab On June 17, Shared Futures: The AI Forum brought together cultural architects, artists, inventors and thinkers to explore how AI is reshaping the way we live, create, connect, and evolve. Through performances, conversations, and experiments, the forum offers a glimpse of how AI can deepen, and not diminish, what makes us human. Co-hosted by Aspen Digital, a program of the Aspen Institute, and the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, this one-day forum goes into the heart of what it means to imagine in an age of intelligent machines.