Former Taiwanese president 
Tsai Ing-wen shared an AI-generated video on Threads on September 22, urging the public to view artificial intelligence positively and to focus on things that let Taiwan reach the world. The clip showed Mazu singing, and the post took up the anxiety and unease of Taiwan's younger generation amid the technology wave, the Liberty Times reported.
What did Tsai tell the tech conference? She was invited to speak at the "She Builds" women's community night of DevDays Asia 2026, a conference that, the Central News Agency reported, was co-hosted by the digital affairs ministry's Administration for Digital Industries and Microsoft Taiwan and opened on September 21. Because AI makes answers easy to obtain, people need all the more to know which answers deserve trust and action, in her view, so they should stay skeptical, curious and empathetic. Technology can process more information, she said, but judging values, bearing responsibility and choosing a direction remain human work.
What role did she describe for Taiwan? Taiwan has built a distinctive industrial ecosystem, from precision manufacturing and electronic components to supply chains and engineering talent, and excels at turning an idea into a product that can be mass-produced, Tsai said in remarks reported by CNA. Taiwan needs friends, in her account, but "Taiwan also has the ability to help our partners," working with the United States and other like-minded partners to face a fast-changing technology environment. Taiwan will not wait for the world to give answers but will go out and provide them, she said: "We need the world, and the world needs Taiwan."
What did her Threads post say? Using AI well still takes human wisdom and judgment, Tsai said in the post, CNA reported. The video used Taiwan's language with English subtitles, letting Taiwan's deities promote its culture on social media, she said. People may pick at AI's flaws in pronunciation and accuracy, in her words, but should recognise the progress it has helped bring. She did not deny that some use AI to do harm or make spoofs, saying, "I am one of those who have suffered deeply from it." That is how democracies are, she said: within what the law allows, "we accept spoofs." She said she trusted the wisdom of Taiwanese society to find a way to respond to enormous malice, and that until then people should look more at what is positive and kind.
Figures referenced: Tsai Ing-wen. — JudgeMarket.
