Aspen Policy Academy AI Civic Action Accelerator 2026 – YOA

Deadline: September 1, 2026

Applications are open for the Aspen Policy Academy AI Civic Action Accelerator 2026. The AI Civic Action Accelerator is a free, 6-session, part-time program that helps people and groups refine and advance promising coverage options to civic synthetic intelligence (AI) challenges. The accelerator will assist early-stage tasks that intention to strengthen the connection between authorities, communities, and AI.

They are searching for sensible, group-pushed concepts that assist governments deal with AI points in society or use AI extra successfully. For occasion, tasks might search to enhance public participation and civic engagement by way of AI; enhance youth on-line security; allow governments and AI to work collectively in additional clear, equitable, and efficient methods; or suggest new methods to deal with AI automating jobs for sure sectors of the workforce.

Curriculum

During the AI Civic Action Accelerator, members will study the Policy Academy’s confirmed framework for reaching coverage affect, workshop their very own concepts with friends and professional Aspen Policy Academy instructors to refine them utilizing this framework, and pitch a refined resolution on to a decisionmaker. The program will embody 6, 2-hour workshopping classes, supported by focused assignments and readings to maintain members progressing between classes.

Each 2-hour session can be cut up between instruction and palms-on workshopping. The educational portion will cowl the Academy’s coverage affect framework, together with classes on scoping issues, figuring out stakeholders, defining various options, creating related outputs, and creating an advocacy plan. The workshopping portion will deal with making use of these classes: Participants will full assignments to advance their civic AI coverage concepts and current them at every session for suggestions from friends and Aspen Policy Academy instructors. By the tip of this system, members can have a concrete civic AI coverage resolution and deliverables, and can have pitched their resolution to an actual decisionmaker.

Benefits

• This program presents you and your group free teaching from coverage consultants on the Aspen Institute to advance a coverage concept, whereas studying and making use of our framework for coverage affect. By the tip of this system, members can have a concrete resolution and a set of deliverables to pitch to a stakeholder. You’ll additionally acquire insights from different cohort members and have ongoing entry to alternatives and assets provided to Academy alumni.

Eligibility

• Applicant(s) should be no less than 21 years of age by the beginning of this system.
• Applicant(s) should be fluent in English.
• Applicant(s) should stay within the United States or are US residents or everlasting residents residing overseas.

Application

Program Dates: 6 Thursday classes from 9:30 – 11:30am PT/12:30 – 2:30pm ET on October 22, October 29, November 5, November 12, November 19, and December 3

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For extra data, go to AI Civic Action Accelerator.