Accelerating AI Ethics

In this episode Dr Caroline Green from Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI speaks to Dr Joy Buolamwini and Angela Oduor Lungati, Executive Director of Ushahidi, about building ethical, community-centered AI from Africa and beyond. Angela discusses her work leading Ushahidi, an open-source platform used globally to crowdsource crisis and human rights data, and how community-generated knowledge can shape more inclusive and context-aware AI systems.Joy reflects on her journey from uncovering bias in facial recognition systems to founding the Algorithmic Justice League, sharing how her research - featured in the documentary Coded Bias - exposes the social harms embedded in AI.
Together, they explore women’s leadership in technology, the importance of grassroots voices in shaping AI governance, and the need for data justice, language representation, and accountability across the AI supply chain. The conversation highlights Kenya’s national AI strategy, Africa’s growing role as a builder - not just consumer - of AI, and the environmental and labour impacts of AI infrastructure. The episode closes with reflections on creativity, humanity, and the role of art in guiding responsible innovation.

In this episode of Accelerating AI Ethics from Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in AI, Dr Caroline Green speaks with Professor Ignacio Cofone, Professor of AI Law and Regulation, about his book The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy.
They discuss why today’s consent-based privacy laws are ill-suited to an AI-driven data economy, how data harms are often relational rather than individual, and why focusing on data use - rather than data collection - is key to preventing exploitation while enabling innovation. The conversation also explores power dynamics in the tech ecosystem, harm liability, and what meaningful reform of data protection law could look like in the age of AI.

In this episode of Accelerating AI Ethics, host Dr Caroline Green is joined in Nairobi by Dr Joy Buolamwini, Founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, and Angela Oduor Lungati, Executive Director of Ushahidi. Together they explore ethical AI from global and African perspectives, reflecting on the Coded Bias world tour, community-led technology, women’s leadership in tech, data justice, and the role of creativity in shaping responsible AI futures.
Featured guests and references
Dr Joy Buolamwini
Founder, Algorithmic Justice League
Author of Unmasking AI
Featured in the documentary Coded Bias
Angela Oduor Lungati
Executive Director, Ushahidi
Co-founder, AkiraChix

Organisations and initiatives mentioned
Algorithmic Justice League
Ushahidi (and the Ushahidi Platform)
AkiraChix
Masakhane Foundation
Lelapa AI

Key works and policy references
Coded Bias (documentary, dir. Shalini Kantayya)
Gender Shades research
EU AI Act (Article 5)
Kenya National AI Strategy

Brendan McCord Podcast: https://blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/the-claude-boys

Episode Summary
In this episode, Dr. Caroline Green is joined by Ambassador Audrey Tang to introduce the “6-Pack of Care” framework—a practical architecture for embedding civic care into AI governance. Moving beyond abstract debates about AI futures, Tang and Green explore how attentiveness, responsibility, competence, responsiveness, solidarity, and symbiosis can form the foundation for AI systems that strengthen human relationships rather than undermine them. From real-world applications in social care to global policy discussions, this conversation offers hopeful, actionable pathways for creating technology that supports pluralism, community, and relational health.
Guest Bio – Ambassador Audrey Tang
Ambassador Audrey Tang is a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics in AI's Accelerator Programme, and is a Taiwanese digital minister, civic hacker, and global advocate for digital democracy. As Taiwan’s former Minister of Digital Affairs, Tang pioneered radical transparency, open government, and participatory digital tools that brought citizens directly into policy-making. Known for their leadership in building pluralistic, collaborative frameworks for technology governance, Tang continues to advise international bodies, research institutes, and civic groups on AI ethics, digital rights, and democraticinnovation. Their work bridges philosophy, policy, and engineering, focusing on how technology can nurture civic participation and collective flourishing.
Topics Covered
Moving from the vision of plurality to the architecture of civic care
Defining civic care as designing AI around relational health and community needs
The 6-Pack of Care framework:

Attentiveness – noticing needs before optimising outcomes
Responsibility – public pledges, accountability, and alignment assemblies
Competence – delivering support that strengthens, not weakens, human relationships
Responsiveness – designing adaptable systems that empower those closest to harms
Solidarity – building infrastructures of cooperation, interoperability, and portability
Symbiosis – bounded, community-rooted AI (the kami metaphor) instead of singularity

Applications of civic care in social care systems and family caregiving
The role of AI in co-production and amplifying unheard voices in policymaking
Tang’s reflections on telepresence, co-presence, and re-presence in diplomacy and civic life
Practical tools such as alignment assemblies, sense-making, and WEVAL.org
Why plurality, solidarity, and symbiosis must guide AI policy and global governance

Resources and Links
The 6-Pack of Care microsite – https://6pack.care
Accelerator Fellowship Programme – Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
WEVAL Wiki Evaluation Platform) – https://weval.org
Dedicate (AI care assistant for family caregivers) – https://dedicate.life
Collective Intelligence Project – https://collective-intelligence-project.org