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Cyber Ambassador 🇹🇼 Taiwan (2024-) and founding Minister of Digital Affairs.
Senior Accelerator Fellow, Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford.

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Audrey Tang

Cyber Ambassador 🇹🇼 Taiwan (2024-) and founding Minister of Digital Affairs.
Senior Accelerator Fellow, Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford.

Safety Cases We Can Check — Together!

Recently, I was invited by SpaceXAI to help them release the “For You” recommendation engine on GitHub, where simply releasing the running weights alone could lead to fraud-related risks, and would not even pin which system was released. Since we set up Taiwan’s AI Evaluation Center in 2023, I’ve been...

A Dialogue on Civic AI

Metacognition, Compassion, and Symbiosis. A Conversation with Geshe Thabkhe Lodroe and Geshe Lodoe Sangpo. Dharamsala, India, 2026-03-13. Part I — The Nature and Obscurity of the Machine Question: What is the fundamental nature of modern artificial intelligence, and why does its reasoning remain a mystery even to itself? Audrey Tang:...

⿻ Symbiogenesis vs. Convergent Consequentialism

(Cross-posted from SayIt archive and EA Forum.) > (Background for conversation: After an exchange in the comments of Audrey's LW post where plex suggested various readings and got a sense that there were some differences in models worth exploring, plex suggested a call. Some commentors were keen to read the...

Oct 21, 2025•64

⿻ Plurality & 6pack.care

(Cross-posted from speaker's notes of my talk at DeepMind today.) Good local time, everyone. I am Audrey Tang, 🇹🇼 Taiwan's Cyber Ambassador and first Digital Minister (2016-2024). It is an honor to be here with you all at DeepMind. When we discuss "AI" and "society," two futures compete. In one—arguably...

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⿻ Plurality & 6pack.care

(Cross-posted from speaker's notes of my talk at DeepMind today.) Good local time, everyone. I am Audrey Tang, 🇹🇼 Taiwan's Cyber Ambassador and first Digital Minister (2016-2024). It is an honor to be here with you all at DeepMind. When we discuss "AI" and "society," two futures compete. In one—arguably the default trajectory—AI supercharges conflict. In the other, AI augments our ability to cooperate across differences. This means treating differences as fuel and inventing a combustion engine to turn them into energy, rather than constantly putting out fires. I call this ⿻ Plurality. Today, I want to discuss an application of this idea to AI governance, developed at Oxford's Ethics in AI Institute, called the 6-Pack of Care. As AI becomes a thousand, perhaps ten thousand times faster than us, we face a fundamental asymmetry. The default trajectory: we become the garden, and AI becomes the gardener—a top-down intelligence tending humanity from above. At that speed, traditional ethics struggle. Consequentialism — even its most sophisticated forms — relies on predicting and overseeing outcomes. When an AI system optimises far beyond our comprehension, we cannot intervene before unintended consequences cascade. Deontology relies on moral agents interpreting obligations in good faith on roughly equal footing. When the "interpreter" operates thousands of times faster, the gap between a rule's letter and its spirit widens in ways we can neither foresee nor correct. Both traditions have far more depth than caricature suggests, but care ethics offers something neither provides: it starts from relationships and process rather than from outcomes or rules alone. A framework that acknowledges this asymmetry but refuses the gardener role is an ethics around civic care, particularly the work of Joan Tronto. The core idea is that we remain each other's gardeners. AI becomes local infrastructure—a spirit of place, a Kami—that supports care at the speed care actually grows

⿻ Symbiogenesis vs. Convergent Consequentialism

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