Audrey Tang
Also known as 唐鳳
Audrey Tang is a civic technologist whose work brings public participation into digital and AI policy. A self-taught programmer and entrepreneur, she developed vTaiwan, a platform for public participation. She became minister of digital affairs in 2022, called for democratic deliberation on AI in 2023, and appeared on TIME’s 2023 AI list. Tang co-authored *Plurality*, received the 2025 Right Livelihood Award and the 2026 Creative Bureaucracy Award, and co-authored research on human–AI alignment. As of October 2026, she serves as Taiwan’s cyber ambassador and holds roles at Oxford, Columbia and GLOCOM.
Timeline
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Before 2016
A civic hacker’s beginnings
A civic technologist, self-taught programmer and entrepreneur, Tang built tools for public participation, including vTaiwan, a platform for consensus-building.
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2016
Opening government to the public
As a minister without portfolio in Taiwan’s Executive Yuan, she convened government agencies to map out an open-government framework.
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August 2022
Launching digital affairs
Tang became minister of the newly established Ministry of Digital Affairs at its August 2022 opening. The ministry’s agenda included digital resilience and cybersecurity.
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2023
Citizens shape AI policy
At a 2023 summit on emerging technology, she called for democratic deliberation as countries addressed the AI safety race. TIME included her on its list of the 100 most influential people in AI.
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September 2024
A book for collaboration
Tang co-authored *Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy* with E. Glen Weyl. In September 2024, they discussed the book’s ideas on the Tech Mirror podcast.
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2025
A civic democracy award
Tang received the 2025 Right Livelihood Award for advancing the social use of digital technology to empower citizens, renew democracy and heal divides. The jury cited her work to foster civic participation and rebuild trust across political divides.
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2026
Aligning people and AI
In March 2026, Tang co-authored “Symbiotic Alignment via Collective Predictive Coding,” a paper on human–AI alignment. In June 2026, the Creative Bureaucracy Festival Award recognized her work on citizen-centered digital systems.
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As of October 2026
Roles across public life
She serves as Taiwan’s cyber ambassador and a senior accelerator fellow at Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in AI. For 2026–27, she is a Carnegie Distinguished Fellow at Columbia SIPA and a visiting professor at GLOCOM in Japan.
Sources and credits
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