The impacts of AI, and the wider forces around it, are arriving fast. But what happens when communities have time to pause, learn about, share different perspectives on, and discuss AI?
The Citizens’ Track on AI governance is an initiative to foster grassroots public participation around AI, and to connect grassroots views with the spaces that are shaping the future of AI, from communities, to industry and global governance fora.
Gabor Rona
Professor of Practice, Cardozo Law School, former International Legal Director of Human Rights First, and legal advisor for the International Committee of the Red Cross, where he played a key role in the establishment of international and other criminal tribunals, including the International Criminal Court.
He writes on international humanitarian and human rights law, with work appearing in the Financial Times, Just Security, and academic journals including the Chicago Journal of International Law.
Amy J. Nelson
Research Fellow, FSI, Director, Future Security Scenarios Lab and Senior Fellow, New America, formerly at The Brookings Institution, the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland, National Defense University, and the U.S. Department of State.
She will be speaking about her new book, The Arms Control Paradox published by Stanford University Press in 2026.
Saket Soni
2026 ASU Future Security Fellow at New America, author of The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America named one of The New York Times’ “100 Notable Books” of 2023. He will be speaking about his work on the lives of those directly impacted the soon-to-be trillion-dollar climate disaster recovery economy.
Co-Sponsored with the Center for Work and Democracy.
On September 15, 2026, Arizona State University and New America will host the 12th Annual Future Security Forum: 25 Years After September 11, Lessons From America’s Post-9/11 Wars. This year’s Forum is organized in collaboration with Global SOF Foundation, Security & Defence PLuS, the McCain Institute, and Small Wars Journal.
This event is cosponsored with ASU and the Future Security Initiative.
In The Inheritance: An American Tragedy in Five Acts, The New York Times Magazine contributing writer and 2022 New America Fellow Janet Reitman traces the lives of nine Americans over three decades, offering a vivid account of a nation in crisis.
This event is cohosted with ASU and the Future Security Initiative.
In Seasons of Fury: Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia in America, The New York Times Magazine contributing writer and 2024 New America Fellow Rozina Ali offers a sweeping narrative history of the U.S. government’s broken compact with its Muslim citizens, culminating in the post-9/11 era of mass surveillance and increased violence.
How does artistic expression endure when freedom is under threat?
This event is cosponsored with ASU and the Future Security Initiative.
From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the galleries of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Man Who Stole the Gods is a tale of stolen treasures and the battle to reclaim a nation’s soul.
