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Minister of Digital Affairs, Ms. Audrey Tang, Speaks at the UK-TW AI Ethics and Standard Workshop on “Easy to Defend, Hard to Attack” Digital Resilience Applications

The Minister of Digital Affairs, Ms. Audrey Tang, delivered a speech at the “2023 UK-TW AI Ethics and Standard Workshop: Algorithmic Transparency and Trustworthy Virtual Entities” today (21st), organized by the Ministry of Digital Affairs (moda) and the British Office Taipei, with a pre-recorded video presentation to share how Taiwan is addressing emerging hazards such as cross-border frauds caused by generative AI based on the Web3 concept.

Minister Tang said that in the face of emerging threats such as interactive deepfake audio and video, the core concept of Web3 is to use electronic signatures to provide solutions such as steganography and zero trust mechanism through open, transparent, globally applicable, and non-falsifiable certificate technology, and create a digital resilient environment that is “easy to defend but difficult to attack.”

Minister Tang pointed out that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the international organization for global web standards, proposed the Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) in 2022, which is an important step for cross-border joint security. The moda, as the authority in charge of the Electronic Signature Law, became a full member of the W3C in January this year and is committed to promoting the vision of “being present together through interoperability” and uniting the global democratic network to build an infrastructure of digital resilience for all.

The “2023 UK-TW AI Ethics and Standard Workshop: Algorithmic Transparency and Trustworthy Virtual Entities” was held for the first time by the moda and the British Office Taipei at the Taipei Cultural and Creative Park, with Minister Tang and the representative from the British Office Taipei, John Dennis, delivering opening speeches. The workshop was held online with the participation of Caroline Copley, head of Digital Identity International Strategy and Legislation under the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, Ben Lyons and Liz Adams from the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, and the Digital Catapult and Government Digital Service (GDS) team from the UK. In Taiwan, present at the venue were Wei-Chung Hwang, deputy general director of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), and Ping Chen, co-founder of Pelith. This discussion holds significant importance as a landmark for the digital technology exchange between Taiwan and the UK.

During the workshop, the UK Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation shared the UK’s approach to building a transparent and socially inclusive virtual world. The representative from the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology presented the UK’s digital identity strategy, and Taiwan’s ITRI shared the application of AI as privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs). We hope that this opportunity will deepen the technical exchange and collaboration between Taiwan and the UK, making Taiwan a key digital partner for the UK and allowing us to explore potential partners to work together and develop a reliable, transparent, and open digital infrastructure.

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