Research project by Audrey Tang and Caroline Emmer De Albuquerque Green: “Governance should feel like a daily capability, not just a periodic vote.
Civic AI is artificial intelligence that answers to the people it affects. Instead of one powerful system built to govern everyone, the idea is to build many small ones that a community can own, inspect, correct, and switch off.
Each of these local stewards has a name — the Kami (knowledge artefact management intelligence): a spirit of place, not a universal governor…
Just heard about Civic AI? Three steps in.
- Get the idea. Read the Manifesto — the whole argument in Audrey Tang’s own words.
- Meet the six principles. Skim the 6-Pack below: six plain-language tests for AI a community can actually trust.
- See it work. “AI Alignment Cannot Be Top-Down” tells how Taiwan answered a wave of AI-enabled scam ads — the framework in the real world.
Prefer to listen? Take the 6-Pack of Care podcast or “Can AI Be Compassionate?” along for a walk. Prefer to watch? Audrey and Caroline introduce the framework in “Reimagining AI Alignment” — a 30-minute fireside chat.
Prefer visuals? Browse all comics — Nicky Case’s illustrated overview and twelve chapter pages…(More)”
