Civic AI is alignment by public process: community-authored safeguards, public accountability, and bounded local systems.
This repository contains the public site for the 6-Pack of Care, a governance framework by Audrey Tang and Caroline Green at Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI.
The core idea is simple: instead of asking a small group of developers to define "aligned" for everyone, the 6-Pack asks who is affected, who can contest decisions, what gets logged publicly, and how systems stay local and reversible. The 6-Pack treats AI not as a sovereign optimiser but as a bounded local steward, or Kami.
| # | Pack | Tronto phase | Core question |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Attentiveness | Caring about | What do the people closest to the pain notice that we're missing? |
| 2 | Responsibility | Taking care of | Who is accountable, with what authority, and what happens if they fail? |
| 3 | Competence | Care-giving | Does the system demonstrably work — audited, explainable, safe-to-fail? |
| 4 | Responsiveness | Care-receiving | Can those affected correct the system, and does correction actually change it? |
| 5 | Solidarity | Caring with | Does the ecosystem structurally reward cooperation over lock-in? |
| 6 | Symbiosis | Kami of Care | Is the system bounded, sunset-ready, and incapable of imperial creep? |
Packs 1 – 4 form Tronto's feedback loop. Pack 5 (from Caring Democracy) ensures the loop operates within democratic commitments to justice, equality, and freedom. Pack 6 is Tang and Green's addition: the meta-level guardrail that keeps care local, bounded, and provisional.
- Policy. Manifesto, FAQ, and AI Alignment Cannot Be Top-Down.
- Engineering. Pack 3, Inside the Kami, and Measures.
- Civic practice. Pack 1, Pack 2, and Pack 4.
civic.ai — bilingual (British English / Traditional Mandarin) static site.
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Part of the Accelerator Fellowship Programme, Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI.