Shared Futures 2026 - Who Gets to Create?

Technology has always shifted the pathways to creativity. A personal journey about an idea that led to an instrument now in MoMA, scoring Idris Elba's film, and designing the Christian Dior immersive experience in Paris. Manon Dave, Creative Technologist & Musician 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.