Angelina Chen

Angelina Chen is a PhD candidate in Information Systems at the University of Sydney. Her research investigates how digital systems can nourish humanity’s desire for aesthetic experience and meaningful connection. She brings hands-on experience developing AI-assisted platforms for policy applications, and critically interrogates what it means to design technology for social good.

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Policymakers need sovereign AI, not commercial gadgets: how we built it and what we learned
16 February 2026

Governments are adopting AI faster than they are governing it. But what does sovereign, public-interest AI look like in practice?
Raffaele Ciriello, Anne-Marie Thow and Angelina Chen

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Policymakers need sovereign AI, not commercial gadgets: how we built it and what we learned

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