Indigenous Peoples and AI | What Are the Concerns?

Indigenous Peoples and AI | What are the concerns?

This year’s theme for International Day of World’s Indigenous Peoples, observed on August 9, centered on the rights of indigenous peoples in the context of an AI-enabled world, and how it could — and should— shape their future.

For Indigenous communities, AI brings peril — and promise

When the United Nations marked the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples last week, it signaled a growing recognition of a new kind of extraction. Artificial intelligence, or AI, systems are being trained on massive troves of online data, much of it collected without the consent of the communities involved. For Indigenous peoples, this new form of extraction has raised questions about who controls their histories, languages, and cu…