How to navigate the changes ushered in by the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)? The year 2023 will be remembered as the year that AI (…)Artificial Intelligence: will it change the world?
The energy transition is bringing unprecedented change to the world’s economies and societies after a century of abundant, reliable and relatively low-cost carbon fuel. The (…)Clean Energy: Many Pathways and Future Challenges
Discussion at this event focused on the prospects, potential, state of the art and challenges associated with the extensive use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the healthcare sector. The growing amount of data available to the medical sector, along with the emergence of new AI systems, is making it possible to mine those data for elements capable of improving healthcare as well as accelerating research and development in the sector itself.
September 20, 2023 was a historic moment for Italian sports: a bill was passed, amending article 33 of the Constitution, formally recognizing the educational, social (…)Sports, youth, major events
2024 is going to be a crucial electoral year for Europe and the United States as they each face not only internal political issues but also the pressure of growing international tensions. The outcome of the elections will be the first major indication of whether the two shores of the Atlantic will continue to act in tandem, with no center or guide, in a manner marked by what has been defined “the age of the polycrisis”, or if existing divergences will widen further.
Italy will be taking over the G7 presidency in January 2024 at a moment of profound geopolitical change and uncertainty. The very structure of globalization (…)The Italian G7 Presidency
The recent eruption of conflict in the Middle East further complicates a fragmented world scenario devoid of the bi-polar security of the past and of (…)The Mediterranean: geopolitical challenges and opportunities for economic and social development
The group focused on understanding the role of science in society, in particular following the Covid-19 crisis, that has put science front and center in decision-making. In this context, we have moved from the pandemic to a pandemonium.
Progress in the field of medicine and improvements in the quality of life are making for longer life-expectancies; according to UN estimates, by the end of 2050, over-65ers will have surpassed under-25ers in number. This concerns Europe in particular and especially Italy, but also involves other countries such as China, which at the start of 2023 saw its birthrate drop for the first time since the 1960s and where the median age by 2050 will be 51 (higher than Italy’s is now).
Democracy is beginning to falter – not least, and above all because, it is so inefficient. A democracy that cannot decide cannot satisfy one of its own basic prerequisites. Western political systems have been in crisis for years, and are now having to face competition from autocracies.
The Italian energy system managed to weather the perfect storm of 2022 generated by the spike in gas prices following the Ukraine war and the simultaneous reduction in hydroelectricity production caused by drought. That was made possible by replacing Russian gas with supplies from other sources.
The seminar focused on three dimensions where Artificial Intelligence (AI) is seen as having a significant impact on industry. The first of these was regulation. An element that emerged very clearly was the impossibility of treating the matter exclusively at local level and the concomitant need for a broad-based international level regulatory framework.
Aspen Italia held the 42nd edition of its ASL program, with the participation of about 200 people (from the US, Italy, UK, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, (…)Aspen Seminars for Leaders 2023
The 8th Aspen Institute Italia Award for scientific research and collaboration between Italy and the United States went to a study on a new synthetic (…)Aspen Institute Italia Award – Award Ceremony
In remembering Giorgio Napolitano, former President of the Italian Republic and Board Member of Aspen Italia, we are pleased to post a review article he (…)In remembering Giorgio Napolitano – Aspenia
Italy’s demographic decline, while consistent with the trends of the principal advanced economies – described and analyzed in the latest issue of Aspenia – is (…)Demographic challenges: jobs and welfare
Contemplation of the future of the West becomes especially vital for a fragmented world in the throes of rising geopolitical tension. The situation’s foremost victim is globalization, which for thirty-odd years seemed to have arrested history but whose dynamics have come forcefully back to center stage.
