Shared Futures 2026 - How Do Americans Feel About AI Today?

Shared Futures 2026 - How Do Americans Feel About AI Today?

New nationwide data on how Americans are actually living with AI — the rapid adoption, the persistent anxiety, the generational divides. Monica Anderson, Managing Director, Pew Research Center 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.