What if AI could strengthen democracy instead of destabilising it?
AI and Democracy: Ambassador Audrey Tang on Plurality in Practice, Transparency and Collective Intelligence
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In this opening episode, Ambassador Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s first Digital Minister and a Fellow of the Accelerator Fellowship Programme at the Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford, shares a bold and hopeful vision of digital innovation shaped by the values of openness, accountability, and civic empowerment. In conversation with Dr Caroline Green, Tang reflects on her own journey from civic hacker to government minister, the role of “radical transparency” in building trust, and how plurality can serve as a design principle for both technology and democracy.
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- ai ethics
- digital democracy
- plurality
- collective intelligence
- civic tech
- participatory platforms
- deliberative alignment
- radical transparency
- social innovation
- pro-social media
- anti-social media
- swift trust
- augmented group intelligence
- open data
- creative commons
- alignment assemblies
- taiwan
- democratic resilience
- youth engagement
- intergenerational collaboration
- broadband as a human right
- social media regulation
- ethical ai
- deliberative democracy
- democratic technology
- civic hacking
- grassroots innovation
- digital rights
- off-ramps
- policy playbook
- platform portability
- misinformation
- digital care
- digital literacy
- civil society
- open source
- decentralisation
- resilience
- Governance
- ai policy
- ai governance
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That's why we're here, to spark urgent conversations about the most pressing ethical issues in AI.
The Accelerator Fellowship Programme at the Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford brings together experts from civil society, industry, government and academia...