Audrey Tang (“civic hacker", Taiwan’s Cyber Ambassador-at-Large, polymath) is one of the world’s most influential thinkers and she has a vision for pro-social AI that is exciting leaders around the world.

Audrey became Taiwan’s former Digital Minister after she hacked the government to turn around a trade deal with China. The result was so ridiculously effective that, instead of arresting her, they gave her a gig in the government! During her 8-year tenure, she engaged almost half the country in co-creating democratic policies through technology. The upshot? Trust in the government went from 9% to a peak of 91% during the pandemic.

I’ve asked Audrey to join us to answer this wild question that burns for many of us:

Is it still possible to save AI – and ourselves - from technofascist doom?

Which is to ask, can we wrestle AI off the tech bros and turn it all around to make it a force for good?

And if so, how? And what would it look like?

About Audrey

Audrey Tang is an activist hacker and was the first Digital Minister of Taiwan (and the world’s first transgender government minister), instrumental in shaping Taiwan's internationally acclaimed COVID-19 response and in safeguarding the 2024 presidential and legislative elections from foreign cyber interference. She’s been named one of TIME's "100 Most Influential People in AI" (2023), is now Taiwan’s cyber Ambassador-at-large and has just published a book, Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

Show Notes

Here’s the link to Audrey’s short film titled Good Enough Ancestor, and you can read about Civic AI — 6-Pack of Care here.

You can get hold of her book Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy here.

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Samantha Sweetwater (systems thinker, Gaian futurist, dance theorist) draws on personal transformation theories, complexity science and indigenous wisdom to help humans navigate civilizational transition. She joins me to talk us through how we can best emerge our way out of the current fiasco and toward the world we’d like to create, what it might look like and what we might want to start doing – or being – to be part of it all. We cover how to use our dreams, our intuition, psychedelics, “the local news" as well as the place of AI and technology in this emergent transition we’re in.

This is a beautiful, emotional and real conversation that launches “series 2” of Wild in which we’ll be exploring “the what comes next” - the “new world” - that we will take the place of the “old” self-destructing, tech-addled, carbon-based, linear world order that’s on its way out.

About Samantha

Samantha is an experienced systems thinker, executive coach and futurist with a master's in Wisdom Studies. She has been initiated into indigenous lineages of Africa, Latin America, and Turtle Island and is also a dance theorist who pioneered the conscious dance movement. Her recently published book True Human: Reimagining Ourselves at the End of the World tackles exactly what we're speaking of here.

Show notes

In this episode, we mention previous Wild chats with collapsed academic Luke Kemp and Adam Mastroianni

Samantha’s new book is called True Human: Reimagining Ourselves at the End of the World

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After a long-ish hiatus, we’re returning with a fresh series of Wild. This second series will be taking a slightly new direction and is now “watchable” on YouTube and Substack.

There will be no fancy studios, no professional gear…Sarah will be getting straight to the important, “life-generating” conversations that steer us through the coming challenging years and decades of what is now understood of complex systems' collapse.

Please hit “follow” or “subscribe” on whatever platform you’re now on so you don’t miss an episode and share the link with, say, at least a dozen of your friends and family.

Catch up on the Wild conversation with these previous episodes:

• IAIN MCGILCHRIST: Our “wretchedness” is a left-brain issue
• GAYA HERRINGTON: Complete global collapse by 2040? The prediction is “right on track”
• VANESSA ANDREOTTI: And now we have hospice modernity
• LUKE KEMP: Will our global civilisation go the way of the Roman Empire?

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