“⿻ Plurality & 6pack.care” by Audrey Tang
24 min•3 september 2025
(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, it 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. This is what I call âż» 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. We become the garden; AI becomes the gardener.
At that speed, traditional [...]
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Outline:
(02:17) From Protest to Demo
(03:43) From Outrage to Overlap
(04:57) From Gridlock to Governance
(06:40) Alignment Assemblies
(08:25) From Tokyo to California
(09:48) From Pilots to Policy
(12:29) From Is to Ought
(13:55) Attentiveness: caring about
(15:05) Responsibility: taking care of
(16:01) Competence: care-giving
(16:38) Responsiveness: care-receiving
(17:49) Solidarity: caring-with
(18:41) Symbiosis: kami of care
(21:06) Plurality is Here
(22:08) We, the People, are the Superintelligence
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First published:
September 1st, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/anoK4akwe8PKjtzkL/plurality-and-6pack-care
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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, it 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. This is what I call âż» 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. We become the garden; AI becomes the gardener.
At that speed, traditional [...]
---
Outline:
(02:17) From Protest to Demo
(03:43) From Outrage to Overlap
(04:57) From Gridlock to Governance
(06:40) Alignment Assemblies
(08:25) From Tokyo to California
(09:48) From Pilots to Policy
(12:29) From Is to Ought
(13:55) Attentiveness: caring about
(15:05) Responsibility: taking care of
(16:01) Competence: care-giving
(16:38) Responsiveness: care-receiving
(17:49) Solidarity: caring-with
(18:41) Symbiosis: kami of care
(21:06) Plurality is Here
(22:08) We, the People, are the Superintelligence
---
First published:
September 1st, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/anoK4akwe8PKjtzkL/plurality-and-6pack-care
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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