Recording: Good Enough Ancestor: Software Freedom as Civic Care across Generations

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Above there's a transcript for the talk, and a recording of some of the questions. Unfortunately, due to a technical issue, we did not manage to record the other questions or the talk. The issue may have come from us taking too much advantage of Jitsi Meet's main server totally free of charge rather than self-hosting or using a managed provider with plugins (libre software shouldn't always be gratis!) or carelessly setting up moderator permissions wrong. Improving our infrastructure and setup is something we are looking into.

About

Tang discusses how the Free Software movement is foundational to her theory of care ethics, democracy, local stewardship and self-governance — and how she and Caroline Green are putting this theory into practice, with principles for AI systems at the local Institute for Ethics in AI.

This talk was held in Oxford on 22 May 2026, as part of this initiative. We have Oxford-based events about free, libre and open-source software, in-person and online for everyone!

Recorded Sections

Not including the main talk in the transcript. Note the technical issues.

Q&A: Does making AI systems more modifiable enable malicious uses?

00:00

Q&A: Do you have a vision of how training should look in practice to enable a forkable, modifiable model?

02:13

Why "Good Enough Ancestor"

06:52

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Video and transcripts produced 2026 by Audrey Tang, dedicated to the public domain under CC0-1.0.

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