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MEET OUR PANELISTS FOR OUR AI PANEL, TOMORROW, OCTOBER 13!

Get free tickets: americanpublicsquare.org/event/ai/

Ruha Benjamin is the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab. A 2024 MacArthur Fellow, she is the award-winning author of Race After Technology, Viral Justice, and Imagination: A Manifesto. Her work explores the relationship between technology, inequality, and social change.

Dr. Donna Ginther is the Roy A. Roberts & Regents Distinguished Professor of Economics and director of the Institute for Policy & Social Research at the University of Kansas. Her research examines scientific labor markets, gender disparities, wage inequality, and science policy. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Kara Lowe is President & CEO of KC Tech Council, representing nearly 200 companies across Kansas City’s tech industry. She leads efforts to shape public policy, strengthen the tech workforce, and support regional growth. Under her leadership, the Council launched KC TechBridge, an employer-led initiative connecting Kansas City residents with training and opportunities for tech careers.

Dr. Jeffrey Thompson is Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Technology & AI at the University of Kansas and Chief Research Informatics Officer at KU Medical Center. He leads research infrastructure, advanced computing, AI, and data science initiatives. He co-founded KU’s Enhanced AI Center for Human Focused Research and helped develop the university’s guiding principles for AI.

Moderator: Tiffany Hsu reports for The New York Times on information quality and threats to shared facts, including disinformation, political propaganda, conspiracy theories, and deepfakes. Her reporting examines why people believe what they believe and the consequences of those beliefs. A journalist for more than two decades, she previously reported for the Los Angeles Times. #KansasCity #AmericanPublicSquare #kansascityevents by @ampublicsquare

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Join American Public Square and Johnson County Library at Johnson County Community College (Polsky Theatre – Midwest Trust Center)

Our very own Director of IPSR Donna Ginther will be a panelist at this event!

Artificial intelligence is already reshaping education, politics, media, medicine, business and the future of work at extraordinary speed. As tech companies race to build massive AI data centers, citizens and governments scramble to respond to fundamental questions about ethics, power, privacy, creativity and Democracy. Will AI create prosperity and innovation or deepen inequality and social isolation? What impact will it have on the workforce? And how do we preserve human judgment, trust and connection in a world increasingly mediated by machines?

Join American Public Square and Johnson County Library for a timely conversation exploring the ethical, political, economic and human consequences of the AI revolution and what it could mean for the future of American life.

Doors open at 5:30 PM and the program will begin at 6 PM. There will be a post-event reception.

Register In Person: https://lnkd.in/gfE-nmyp

Register Online: https://lnkd.in/gfE-nmyp by @ampublicsquare

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Are you ready to read with APS and the aspeninstitute? Visit your local independent bookstore (like rainydaybooks) to pick up a book!

#TheBigRead
#Weaving
#WeavingUs by @ampublicsquare

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Last week, more than 150 bridge-builders from across the country came to Kansas City carrying gifts.

American Public Square was proud to welcome the 2nd Annual Bridging Movement Summit to Kansas City alongside the Listen First Coalition, bringing together practitioners, researchers, journalists, artists, funders and civic leaders working to rebuild trust across difference.

We opened with “Turning Down the Heat: Rebuilding Trust in an Age of Outrage,” featuring Mike Abrams of The New York Times, Olajumoke “Jummy” Banjo of the Aspen Institute, Rev. Dr. Branden S. Polk of Stand Together and moderator Jeremy Hobson of The Middle. From there came two days of workshops, conversations, new research, shared meals, films, ideas, laughter and connections that we hope will travel far beyond Kansas City.

There was no single answer to the question of how we rebuild trust in America. That may have been another gift. Instead, there were hundreds of people willing to keep asking the question together.

To everyone who traveled here, spoke, listened, volunteered, sponsored, shared your work, challenged an assumption, made a new friend or simply pulled up a chair: thank you. Kansas City was proud to have you. And we can’t wait to see what you carry home. by @ampublicsquare

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Had a great time in Kansas City for the second annual Bridging Movement Summit. Hosted by @listenfirstproject and @ampublicsquare

@myomahafilm is out on PBS in less than a week! by @ampublicsquare

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“We have an inability to talk about the history of our country because it looks different for all of us.”

Jummy Banjo, senior director of the Alliance for Social Trust at the @aspeninstitute, says we cannot build trust without first acknowledging that Americans experience our history differently and recognizing the harm that has been done.

Link in bio to full conversation! taken in Kansas City, Missouri by @ampublicsquare

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How do we rebuild trust?

According to Mike Abrams, deputy editor for Trust at @nytimes, this comes from the small acts that make the world a better place, like using your turn signal, answering your emails, and subscribing to news organizations.

Full show link in bio! by @ampublicsquare

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A photo capsule of this incredible week! @apommstories gave us the greatest gift at our Bridging Summit with @listenfirstproject taken in Kansas City, Missouri by @ampublicsquare

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@brandenpolk, director of activations at @standtogether, says we aren’t necessarily electing people we trust.

Instead, we often choose leaders based on who we believe can help us and our families, without giving enough thought to the broader community.

Link in bio to watch our full show, live from Kansas City! by @ampublicsquare

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American Public Square is on @listentothemiddle!

Yesterday, we kicked off the second annual Bridging Movement Summit in Kansas City with @listenfirstproject, hosting a live conversation about one of the defining challenges of our moment: How do we rebuild trust in an age of outrage?

Host Jeremy Hobson was joined by Mike Abrams Deputy Editor for Trust at The New York Times; Olajumoke Banjo, Senior Director of the Alliance for Social Trust at the Aspen Institute; and Dr. Branden Polk, LMSW, Director of Activations at Stand Together.

Together, they explored why Americans’ trust in our institutions, our politics, the media and one another has eroded, and what it might actually take to rebuild it.

The conversation was recorded live in front of our Summit audience, and the episode is out tonight at 9 PM EST on The Middle.

listentothemiddle.com by @ampublicsquare

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Today, we gathered with the filmmakers honored last night at the Better Together Film Festival for a conversation on “Leveraging the Power of Film to Bridge Divides,” moderated by Jeffrey Abramson of Bridge Entertainment Labs.

Storytellers help shape the cultural norms of our country. Through documentary and narrative film alike, they can challenge assumptions, complicate the stories we tell about one another, and help us see people and experiences we might otherwise dismiss.

“You arrive at empathy through intimacy.”

Nadia Gill of The [Conserv]atives shared how documentary film can give audiences the rare opportunity to spend meaningful time with people they may disagree with, revealing a fuller portrait of who they are and creating space for empathy and understanding without asking anyone to abandon their own values.

“I followed my curiosity, and I was talking to people who had their guard up about me and I had my guard up about them. But approaching with curiosity and looking them in the eye those barriers started coming down.”

Kahane Corn Cooperman reflected on the making of CREEDE U.S.A. and the many ways the filmmaking process challenged assumptions on both sides of the camera.

That spirit ran throughout today’s conversation. Stories that bridge divides do not have to avoid conflict. They can embrace meaningful conflict, complexity, tension, curiosity, and contradiction while bringing us into closer contact with people and ideas different from our own.

Thank you to the storytellers and artists who joined us today and who continue to use film to tell richer, more human stories about who we are.

🎬 Josh Sabey, 9/11: Reclaiming Ground Zero
🎬 Louise Woehrle, A Binding Truth
🎬 Elinor Pierce, Abraham’s Bridge
🎬 Eric Liebman, Breaking the Cycle
🎬 Kahane Corn Cooperman, CREEDE U.S.A.
🎬 Nick Beaulieu, My Omaha
🎬 Nadia Gill, The [Conserv]atives
🎬 Peter Tamaribuchi, The Question by @ampublicsquare

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It’s Convocation Day! 🙌 Thank you to all of our students, staff, faculty, community partners and supporters who joined us this morning in Gano Chapel. A special congratulations to our Honorees and gratitude to them for their tireless work to support our area❤️ It’s a great day to be on the Hill! #wjccardinals
@ampublicsquare @thesmef @childrensmercy @unitedwe__ @kcstarlight @kcreptheatre @tensionenvelopeprint @fwc26kansascity @policefoundationkc #williamjewellcollege #itsagreatdaytobeonthehill taken in William Jewell College by @ampublicsquare

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