Taiwan lawmakers' offices lean on AI, raising worries about outsourced judgment and Chinese data
AI is already part of daily work in Taiwan's legislature, and staff and academics warn it could quietly shape political values and carry Chinese bias.
- Lawmakers' offices now use AI to draft speeches, build slides and graphics, and analyze laws.
- Staff say AI is useful for sorting information, but it cannot decide moral questions like euthanasia, the death penalty, or how to treat the poor.
- One office director warns that letting AI tailor a message to whatever the audience wants to hear is not political judgment, just empty wordsmithing.
- A legislative aide calls AI a "new god" people treat as an authority, making humanities training and critical thinking more valuable, not less.
- Security expert Ho Cheng-hui says the underlying model and training data shape the output, so users should tell AI to exclude Chinese sources.
Outlook: Expect pressure in Taiwan for training on how political staff use AI, and more attention to which models and data sources they rely on.