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Civic AI — 6-Pack of Care
A civic AI research project by Audrey Tang and Caroline Green at Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI, proposing six principles for trustworthy AI governance: community stewardship, accountability, reciprocity, equitability, sustainability, and safety.
Signal
Civic AI — 6-Pack of Care · civic.ai · 2026-02-18
Research project by Audrey Tang and Caroline Green, affiliated with Oxford's Accelerator Fellowship Programme, Institute for Ethics in AI. The "6-Pack of Care" names six principles for trustworthy civic AI deployment.
Context
The project reframes AI governance around civic care rather than regulatory compliance. The six principles — community stewardship (Kami), accountability, reciprocity, equitability, sustainability, and safety — are drawn from both democratic theory and indigenous concepts of collective stewardship. Audrey Tang's involvement connects this directly to her work as Taiwan's former Digital Minister and her advocacy for participatory technology governance.
Relevance
This is a practitioner-led governance framework that operates outside institutional capture — proposing rather than mandating, drawing on non-Western governance traditions, and centering community accountability over regulatory oversight. For Openflows, it represents a meaningful counterpoint to compliance-oriented AI governance: governance as care rather than constraint.
Current State
Active research project hosted under Oxford's AI ethics programme. Public-facing site at civic.ai with multilingual support (English and Traditional Chinese). The 6-Pack framework is documented as a research output, not a deployed product.
Open Questions
- How does the Kami (community stewardship) concept translate across governance contexts outside Taiwan and the UK?
- What relationship does this framework have to existing regulatory efforts (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF)?
- Is the Oxford affiliation primarily legitimating or does it shape the research direction?
Connections
The 6-Pack of Care is connected to Audrey Tang's broader practice of participatory digital governance. The framework's accountability and transparency principles align with the Inspectable Agent Operations circuit. Its civic orientation engages directly with the Civic Influence Resilience circuit's concern for democratic AI deployment.
Updates
2026-03-15: Entry rewritten. Original signal misidentified 6pack.care as a personal health app. Current source confirms it redirects to civic.ai — a research project by Audrey Tang and Caroline Green at Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI, proposing a "6-Pack of Care" framework for trustworthy civic AI governance.