"What Must Remain Human?" Conference
October 29–31, 2026: Hanover, New Hampshire
In 1956, the Dartmouth Summer Research Project launched the field of artificial intelligence. It was here in Hanover that the term was coined and the foundational question was asked: can machines solve problems once reserved for human minds? Seventy years later, Dartmouth convened an anniversary conference to continue the conversation — this time focused not on what AI can do, but on what humans must do in its presence.
The original meeting asked how machines could think. This one asked a different set of questions: Where does AI improve human judgement and where does it fall short? Where should it never replace human judgement? Who is accountable when it fails? And what does AI cost us? Over three days, the conference brought together leaders from government, industry, and academia, along with scholars, critics, and students, to discuss what AI makes possible, question its limits, and confront the challenges it creates. The conference also marked the release of new research on the relationship between AI and human capability. The event was supported in part by The Rockefeller Foundation, which helped fund the original gathering in 1956. Recordings of all sessions are available.
Watch the sessions.
Three days of keynotes, panels, and short-form talks, built for dialogue. Our speakers came from different fields, and they didn’t always share the same view of AI's value, its costs, or its limits.