{"id":190509,"date":"2026-02-25T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/taiwans-ai-basic-act-can-be-a-model-for-asia\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T09:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:45:10","slug":"taiwans-ai-basic-act-can-be-a-model-for-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/taiwans-ai-basic-act-can-be-a-model-for-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan\u2019s AI Basic Act Can Be a Model for Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpolicy.press\/taiwans-ai-basic-act-can-be-a-model-for-asia\/\">Taiwan\u2019s AI Basic Act Can Be a Model for Asia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpolicy.press\/taiwans-ai-basic-act-can-be-a-model-for-asia\/\">https:\/\/www.techpolicy.press\/taiwans-ai-basic-act-can-be-a-model-for-asia\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-25 09:17:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.techpolicy.press\">www.techpolicy.press<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Taiwan passed the AI Basic Act in January 2026 to establish a &#8220;smart nation&#8221; by promoting AI research and development with an emphasis on safeguarding fundamental rights and cultural values.<\/li>\n<li>The legislation establishes a layered governance system with a central authority to oversee AI applications across different sectors.<\/li>\n<li>Taiwan adopts a &#8220;principle-based&#8221; approach to AI regulation, prioritizing innovation and aligning with the US and Japan, unlike the stricter regimes of the EU and South Korea.<\/li>\n<li>The Act aims to bolster Taiwan\u2019s position in the global AI and semiconductor supply chains, ensuring international confidence and trust in its governance system.<\/li>\n<li>Taiwan intends to support AI sovereignty by amending laws to facilitate high-quality open data and by enhancing its compute infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li>The Act emphasizes public-private partnerships to foster innovation and includes clauses encouraging collaboration between industry, academia, and government.<\/li>\n<li>While the Act incorporates clauses relating to digital rights and labor protections, it lacks clear mechanisms for civil society participation in policy co-formulation and monitoring.<\/li>\n<li>Taiwan plans a significant investment of over NT$30 billion in 2026, as part of a larger multiyear plan to develop its AI capabilities, despite internal political challenges and geopolitical pressures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan\u2019s AI Basic Act Can Be a Model for Asia https:\/\/www.techpolicy.press\/taiwans-ai-basic-act-can-be-a-model-for-asia\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-25 09:17:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":190510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/images\/3tzzh18d\/production\/ea5c0b7c5fd82d927263922e149396b3279eac20-1200x675.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190511,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190509\/revisions\/190511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}