Ministry of Education's "AI in Every Library": Free access to ChatGPT and Claude with library cards, currently being rolled out across 47 national universities.

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Starting in the fourth quarter of this year, the Ministry of Education will launch a pilot program titled "AI in Every Library" at national libraries. Citizens can use their library cards to access paid versions of AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini for free, though the initial phase will provide only 5 computers per library. (Previous coverage: Sam Altman: OpenAI aims to be a "perpetually low-margin" large-scale infrastructure; high profits are simply unrealistic) (Background: Anthropic announces unlocked 4.6 million token context window for Opus with no price increase, crushing GPT-5.4 in context tests) Surveys by the Institute for Information Industry show that over 70% of the Taiwanese public uses free AI tools. It is not that the free versions of ChatGPT or Gemini are useless, but there is an increasingly wide capability gap between them and the paid versions. Entering 2026, flagship models like GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus are available only to paid subscribers, while free users are effectively limited to previous or even older generations of models. Legislator Ge Ru-jun defines this issue as "AI equality": not everyone can afford the monthly AI subscription fee of NT$600–700. The Ministry of Education's response is to turn libraries into gateways for paid AI tools. The core mechanism is simple: one library card in exchange for access to paid AI tools. Starting in the fourth quarter of this year, three pilot sites will open simultaneously: the National Central Library, the National Library of Public Information, and the National Taiwan Library. Each will be equipped with 5 dedicated computers pre-installed with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, allowing visitors to use them at no extra cost. Minister of Education Cheng Ying-yao stated that the Ministry will assist 47 national universities across the country in promoting related programs. Regarding private universities, Liao Kao-hsien, Director of the Department of Higher Education, explained that they can apply for funding through existing channels. Libraries have historically served as a buffer for the digital divide. Now, AI subscription fees have become a new form of digital divide, and libraries are once again being tasked with the same role. However, the limit of only 5 computers per library is the most direct constraint on the scale of this program. The National Central Library serves over one million people annually. With 5 computers, even if each is used for 8 hours a day with 30-minute sessions, it can serve a maximum of 80 people per day. This figure is negligible when faced with millions of library card holders nationwide and hundreds of thousands of students who are structurally disadvantaged regarding AI tools. Furthermore, although these are paid subscriptions, the most powerful programming features of ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini currently have usage and time limits, meaning there are still many practical issues to resolve. Overall, "AI in Every Library" is more of a policy signal than a comprehensive solution. Its significance lies in the Ministry of Education formally acknowledging that the accessibility of AI tools is a public issue and that the library system is an appropriate venue for intervention. However, there is still a distance between acknowledging the problem and solving it. What is more worth tracking is the progress of the 47 national universities: the coverage efficiency in campus settings is far higher than the single-point model of libraries. If national universities can provide legal collective licensing for paid AI tools on campus, allowing students to use them with their student IDs, it would be closer to a systemic infrastructure for AI equality.

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