
Taiwan has been prototyping Civic AI for more than a decade. It is especially meaningful that we are recording this on March 18, the anniversary of the 2014 Sunflower Movement. During those three weeks of occupation, half a million people were in the streets and many more were online. We showed that plurality works: people with very strong feelings about the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement could still transform those feelings into a coherent set of demands. Speaker Wang Jin-pyng at the time simply said, "The people's ideas are better. Let's adopt them."