person
Audrey Tang
First Digital Minister of Taiwan; pluralism and civic tech
Coded Taiwan's COVID mask-availability dashboard, negotiated Uber/taxi mediations, and pioneered participatory digital governance. Co-author of the Plurality book. Proposes 'alignment assemblies' as a model for deliberative AI governance.
Profile
expertise
Policy / meta
Specialises in AI policy, regulation, governance, philanthropy, or movement strategy. Reads the technical literature but does not produce it.
Taiwan's first Digital Minister (2016–2024). Civic-tech and 'plurality' work bridges governance and AI deployment. Technical fluency but not in ML proper.
recognition
Household name
Name recognition outside the AI/CS community. Featured by mainstream press, a Wikipedia page in many languages, a published bestseller, or holds a position the lay public knows.
Recurring international press. TIME100. Minister-rank profile.
vintage
Deep-learning rise
Came up post-AlexNet. ImageNet, AlphaGo, transformer paper. DeepMind, Google Brain, FAIR establish the modern lab template.
Civic-tech work pre-2010 but Digital Minister role 2016–2024 puts her AI policy voice in the deep-learning era.
Hand-classified. See the board for the criteria and the full grid.
Strategy positions
Democratic mandateendorses
Decisions about AI must come through democratic processesArgues AI governance must be built from deliberative democracy primitives, alignment assemblies, pol.is-style consensus, plurality of models.
“When we see the Internet of Things, let's make it an Internet of Thee. When we see machine learning, let's make it collaborative learning. Whenever a singularity is near, let us always remember the plurality is here.”
Context: Her first self-description as Digital Minister.
Existential primacyendorses
Extinction/disempowerment risk overrides ordinary cost-benefitSignatory to the Statement on AI Risk.
“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”
Closest strategy neighbours
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Record last updated 2026-04-24.