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SUMMARY:From Outrage to Overlap: Civic AI and the 6-Pack of Care by Taiwan
 's Cyber Ambassador Audrey Tang
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DESCRIPTION:AI governance is often framed as a top-down problem: write bet
 ter rules\, infer better preferences\, and train better models. This talk 
 offers a different starting point. Drawing on Taiwan’s experience with d
 igital democracy\, Audrey Tang shows how Civic AI can strengthen collectiv
 e self-government when it is bounded by local accountability and community
  needs. Audrey introduces the 6-Pack of Care — six design principles for
  Civic AI: attentiveness\, responsibility\, competence\, responsiveness\, 
 solidarity\, and symbiosis. Rather than treating ethics as a static checkl
 ist\, this approach asks whether a system operates at the community scale\
 , can be corrected quickly\, and increases a community’s capacity to coo
 perate. The unit of deployment is the “Kami” — a bounded local stewa
 rd\, not a universal governor. Using examples from Taiwan’s Alignment As
 sembly on deepfake scam advertisements\, bridging algorithms that turn out
 rage into overlap\, and federated safety infrastructure\, the talk demonst
 rates what governance looks like when communities can inspect\, contest\, 
 and shut down the systems that serve them. The breakthrough is not smarter
  chatbots\; it is stronger self-government.\n\nAudrey Tang is the 2025 Rig
 ht Livelihood Laureate and Taiwan’s Cyber Ambassador. She is a civic hac
 ker\, co-author of Plurality and the forthcoming 6-Pack of Care\, and an i
 naugural Senior Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI. She serve
 d as Taiwan’s first Digital Minister (2016–2024) and the world’s fir
 st non-binary cabinet minister. In 2025\, Audrey was awarded the Right Liv
 elihood Award for “advancing the social use of digital technology to emp
 ower citizens\, renew democracy and heal divides.” A child prodigy who p
 ractised Taoism to manage a congenital heart condition\, Tang left formal 
 schooling at 14 to pursue self-education. By the age of 19\, she had becom
 e an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley and a leader in the free and open-sour
 ce software communities\, revitalising the Haskell and Perl languages. Aud
 rey was instrumental in the creation of g0v (gov-zero) and played a pivota
 l role in the 2014 Sunflower Movement\, facilitating digital consensus-bui
 lding during the occupation of Taiwan’s legislature. As Digital Minister
 \, she implemented radical transparency and participatory democracy platfo
 rms such as vTaiwan and Join. Her tenure saw public trust in Taiwan’s go
 vernment rise from single digits to over 70%\, driven by innovations such 
 as the “Mask Map” during COVID-19 and efforts to defend against cyber 
 interference in the 2024 elections. Currently\, Audrey advocates for “Pl
 urality”: collaborative technology that bridges divides. In 2025\, she c
 o-launched ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools) in Paris to develop dec
 entralised safety infrastructure. She describes her philosophy as becoming
  a “good enough ancestor”\, striving to leave future generations a wid
 er canvas for democratic possibility.\n\nThe seminar will be chaired by Dr
  Bo-jiun Jing\, Senior Research Fellow and Programme Manager in Taiwan Stu
 dies at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies\, and is held in part
 nership with St Antony’s International Review (STAIR).
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LOCATION:Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies - Lecture Theatre\, St Anton
 y's College 27 Winchester Road  Oxford Oxfordshire OX2 6NA United Kingdom
SPEAKER:Audrey Tang (Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI)\, Bo-jiun Jing (Ox
 ford School of Global and Area Studies)
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