The science ministers team trains AI to have more capabilities, essentially. We work quite closely together, but with an independent setup so that we’re not just evaluating TAIDE, but also all the participating, Llama and the other open source, open weight models, and also many of the cutting-edge labs are ...

The digital minister’s team is for AI evaluation to ensure that it behaves responsibly.

It is the wish that we hear from the alignment assemblies here in Taiwan that the government should not just publish the source code, but also the code of conduct, the regulatory code, and so on, internally to the outside so that the citizens can learn what we have learned ...

I reply to my emails with a fine-tuned model on this laptop, fine-tuned on my public communications and my emails. But because the fine-tuning works in airplane mode, there is less of cybersecurity and privacy concerns. I always read all the drafts before I hit send, so that it’s not ...

I guess I do feel responsible because without the advanced chips coming from Taiwan. There’s no this generation of AI. I think the responsible use of AI is contextually dependent on the cultural expectations. For example, when we run the alignment assemblies here in Taiwan, people expected the public sector ...

I think that is one of the more forward-looking ways to, instead of just hammering on each individual, FEMI attacks, this is about building a new infrastructure of, as I mentioned, provenance, but not just provenance, but also cross country digital signature recognition and decentralized identities and things like that ...

I think this time, after what we have learned from the anti-social social media a decade ago, the democratic jurisdictions are now waking up much quicker to the threats posed by synthetic media and also by interactive deep fakes and precision persuasion. I would encourage you to look up the ...

People thought it’s a good idea to flatten context, to reduce shared context into something that is globally shared with a URL and all that and with an addictive touch screen and so on. It’s a deadly combination.

I think it is quite interesting that the interactive, deep fake precision persuasion and also India’s early actions against TikTok are all converging together on a shared common worry. I think this is quite good because previously, when the retweet and share buttons were invented, there was not such a ...

We don’t have a hallucination to the people. Scaling this quite, I would say, even intimate experience of deliberation is the main challenge that we’re tackling now.

It’s our wetware limitation, which is why the investment in the synthetic avatars is so important because it allows people to deliberate on a smaller community scale, but also effortlessly reflect this back to the wider community so that a synthetic avatar can speak not representing, re-presenting the core argument, ...

The limitation was that a human brain simply cannot process more than, say, 1,000 statements from more than 150 people, Dunbar’s number. Beyond which we rely on hierarchies, abstractions, and so on.

Previously, it was hourly batches. But this today is real time. People can then get a feeling of what is the overlapping consensus, what are the general feelings of the population without over-focusing our calories on the polarized parts which tend to dominate the click-based engagement conversations. I think this ...

As long as these breaching statements start to appear, the system automatically highlights. Actually, it’s exactly like the community notes on X.Com because the community notes team took the police algorithm and made it work on X.Com. It’s a little bit like a jury duty, really. When you sign up ...

People thought that surge pricing is fine, but undercutting existing meters is not and so on.

There’s a visualization that shows via kinsman’s clustering what people are feeling. But it also visualizes the bridges. As soon as somebody proposed something that has wide appeal to all the different fractured, polarized populations, for example, that people thought that insurance is important in rides.

Okay, very quick introduction then. It is like a survey, but we call it a wiki survey in the sense that it is the participants that write the survey ideas. It’s like a big brainstorming room where people can say, Oh, I feel that Uber is the future of sharing ...

Sure. We’ve adopted the Polis tool. It’s now multilingual and so on. We use it in alignment assemblies this year. The tool for… People have been briefed of the tool before?

Half of them will have an election on the national level. I think flipping this default so that only the domestic confirmed sources are assumed to be human, everything else is assumed to be a robot, I think it’s going to be an important playbook to all Democratic jurisdictions. We’re ...

We also have a short GOV.TW URL, to ensure that we don’t use the foreign URL, the shorteners, and so on. At one glance, people can very easily see that this is a domestic source, this is a governmental source, and then everything else is just assumed to be a ...

That if there’s a foreign source purporting to be the government, either for scam or information manipulation reasons, it will very easily just show its source. In terms of actor, behavior, and content, and distribution, we now focus on actor and behavior part because the content part is, frankly speaking, ...

The foreign sources that want to manipulate, want to interfere, and so on, we need to clearly identify them as such. For example, the government communications, starting next week, actually, most of the communications will go through a single SMS number, 111. If you receive a SMS from a governmental ...

One of the most important things that ACS does is to distinguish from the domestic sources, from the foreign sources. You will notice that we don’t say this information in the slides or really any public communication. We use the European word FEMI, Foreign Information, Manipulation, and interference, or just ...

This is like asking how do we counter the coronavirus while protecting the freedom of movement? In Taiwan, we managed to do both. During the three years of pandemic, there’s not a single day where we restricted across city movements of people. We’ve never had a lockdown internally. I think ...

Rather, we work with the very long tail of Taiwan. We have more than 20 national languages which is 16 indigenous nations, 42 language variations. There’s no way that we can be the canonical information source for all these different cultures. We need to work not just on bridge-making systems, ...

There’s a lot of systems in Taiwan that are continuously accountable to the people. During the pandemic, for example, the allocation of PPEs, the vaccination reservations, and so on. We take pride in not just providing a board, but continuously publishing open API so that people in the civil society ...

We’ve partnered with OpenAI and especially Anthropic so that they can tune their future AI systems using what’s called constitutional AI based on people’s wish. You can co-create something like the Declaration of Human Rights or whatever, a constitutional document, and for it to align AI this way. In addition ...

Scalable delivery or compression without losing nuance. This is another thing that we do in Moda.

It’s like an executive summary that talks back to you. You can just present scenarios and cases and so on, and also invest in bridge-finding systems so that when we have multiple such workshops, each can train a small AI, and those small AIs can deliver among each other to ...

We sincerely believe that we can use digital technologies to extend the feeling of, say, 100 people in the same room to scale it so that tens of thousands of people can still feel that they’re in the same room and deliberating about, for example, how to work with AI, ...

Many lobbyist visits turn into sustainability conversations just because they know that the future is watching. This is the first thing that we do. In addition to radical transparency, we also hold collaborative deliberations.

Everything that I participated in, including journalistic visits and so on, are online. This is because the nature of conversation changes when people know that the future generations are looking at it.

If you search for Say It, you can see it actually since 2015 or so.

Thank you. Great question. All governments, I hope, work for its people, but we work with the people. In doing that, we practice radical transparency. All the visits, including this one, we make a public transcript, free of copyright in CC0 under public domain and publish it on our ministerial ...

This is saying that we welcome people from the entire globe as long as we’re aligned in value, in the safeguarding, democracy, information, integrity, and we welcome diversity. We want to turn toward a very diverse place because we take pride in our ability to turn conflict into co-creation. Now, ...

The idea is that after spending three years as a resident, you can, of course, come here and enjoy health care and so on. But we actually designed this with digital nomads in mind. Even if you just becoming a virtual Taiwanese, after five years, this gold card can be ...

I would just add that anyone who has participated in digital-related competitions that we hold, including this one and the presidential hackathon and so on, are automatically eligible for Taiwanese residency. We have a Taiwan gold card program that you can get quite easily by not just winning the competition, ...

When we say free the future, we mean not just advancing a particular value, but increasing the overlap between all the values of democratic participation progress and safety in order to widen the narrow corridor between the state power and the civic power. Now, without further ado, let’s just hear ...

Participation, progress, safety is a triangle. In other jurisdictions, these three belong to either three ministers or two ministers, one taking a side and one taking the other dot. But only in Taiwan – because it is that during the pandemic times, there are teams that work so closely together ...

The idea is to co-create from tension, to co-create from conflict, and working on systems that turns any conflict into co-creation. That’s the ministry proper. Under the Ministry, there are two administrations. We’re now in the building of the Administration for Digital Industries, which is for progress, AI deployment, platform ...

We have seen that many of you are interested in the cybersecurity arm, but I will first lay out a basic outline of our ministry. In the ministry proper, the Ministry of Digital Affairs, and 數位 in Mandarin means both digital but also plural, as in 數位部長 is like ministers ...

Welcome, everyone, to our startup. This ministry, the Ministry of Digital Affairs, started last August. A couple of weeks after Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit, the hour that our website went online, missiles flew over our heads, and we suffered the most devastating DDOS attack that we successfully countered. Our slogan ...

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Very much so. We’re not the most safe place, I think that’s Antarctica, but we come close.

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