The Ashby Workshops: 2025 Report
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Feb 1, 2025
In January 2025, Fathom.org convened 180 leaders from government, business, academia, and civil society in Middleburg, Virginia for The Ashby Workshops.
Fathom challenged its guests to share their expertise and diverse perspectives on AI, and through discussion and debate, begin to arrive at actionable insights for its governance. Over several, high-energy days, guests engaged on topics ranging from the use of community-based groups to build public trust in AI, to the operationalization of HPC cybersecurity standards with special compute zones. Through this process, a constellation of ideas, values, and recommendations began to emerge with broad support, with two achieving particularly strong consensus: the United States must lead the world in AI, and both literacy and education programs are critical foundational needs for society.