{"id":641525,"date":"2024-10-14T02:10:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T23:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ai-affects-everyone-including-indigenous-people\/"},"modified":"2024-10-14T02:10:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T23:10:01","slug":"ai-affects-everyone-including-indigenous-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ai-affects-everyone-including-indigenous-people\/","title":{"rendered":"#AI affects everyone\u2014including Indigenous people"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a407b2146db2\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a407b2146db2\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ai-affects-everyone-including-indigenous-people\/#Indigenous_concerns\" >Indigenous concerns<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ai-affects-everyone-including-indigenous-people\/#Looking_to_the_future\" >Looking to the future<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ai-affects-everyone-including-indigenous-people\/#Indigenous_Futurisms\" >Indigenous Futurisms<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2019\/8-ai.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2019\/8-ai.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Credit: CC0 Public Domain\">\n<figure class=\"article-img\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2019\/8-ai.jpg\" alt=\"ai\" title=\"Credit: CC0 Public Domain\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js text-truncate mt-3\">\n                Credit: CC0 Public Domain<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Since artificial intelligence (AI) became mainstream over the past two years, many of the risks it poses have been widely documented. As well as fueling deep fake porn, threatening personal privacy and accelerating the climate crisis, some people believe the emerging <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.safe.ai\/work\/statement-on-ai-risk\">could even lead to human extinction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                                                    But some risks of AI are still poorly understood. These include the very particular risks to Indigenous knowledges and communities.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a simple reason for this: the AI industry and governments have largely ignored Indigenous people in the development and regulation of AI technologies. Put differently, the world of AI is too white.<\/p>\n<p>AI developers and governments need to urgently fix this if they are serious about ensuring everybody shares the benefits of AI. As Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people like to say, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.woroni.com.au\/words\/redfern-statement-nothing-about-us-without-us\/\">&#8220;nothing about us, without us&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Indigenous_concerns\"><\/span>Indigenous concerns<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Indigenous peoples around the world are not ignoring AI. They are having conversations, conducting research and sharing their concerns about the current trajectory of it and related technologies.<\/p>\n<p>A <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.terrijanke.com.au\/post\/the-new-frontier-artificial-intelligence-copyright-and-indigenous-culture\">well-documented<\/a> problem is the theft of cultural intellectual property. For example, users of AI image generation programs such as <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deepai.org\/\">DeepAI<\/a> can artificially generate artworks in mere seconds which mimic Indigenous styles and stories of art.<\/p>\n<p>This demonstrates how easy it is for someone using AI to mis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ropriate cultural knowledges. These generations are taken from large data sets of publicly available imagery to create something new. But they miss the storying and cultural knowledge present in our art practices.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                                                            AI technologies also fuel the spread of misinformation about Indigenous people.<\/p>\n<p>The internet is already riddled with misinformation about Indigenous people. The long-running Creative Spirits website, which is maintained by a non-Indigenous person, is <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/researchers.mq.edu.au\/files\/289776778\/Publisher_version.pdf\">a prominent example<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Generative AI systems are likely to make this problem worse. They often <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.terrijanke.com.au\/post\/the-new-frontier-artificial-intelligence-copyright-and-indigenous-culture\">conflate us with other global Indigenous peoples<\/a> around the world. They also draw on inappropriate sources, including Creative Spirits.<\/p>\n<p>During last year&#8217;s Voice to Parliament referendum in Australia, &#8220;no&#8221; campaigners also used <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/aug\/07\/indigenous-voice-to-parliament-no-campaign-ai-facebook-ads\">AI-generated images<\/a> depicting Indigenous people. This demonstrates the role of AI in political contexts and the harm it can cause to us.<\/p>\n<p>Another problem is the lack of understanding of AI among Indigenous people. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apo.org.au\/node\/327239\">Some 40%<\/a> of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population in Australia don&#8217;t know what generative AI is. This reflects an urgent need to provide relevant information and training to Indigenous communities on the use of the technology.<\/p>\n<p>There is also concern about the use of AI in classroom contexts and its specific impact on Indigenous students.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Looking_to_the_future\"><\/span>Looking to the future<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Hawaiian and Samoan Scholar <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jasonlewis.org\/\">Jason Lewis<\/a> says,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must think more expansively about AI and all the other computational systems in which we find ourselves increasingly enmeshed. We need to expand the operational definition of intelligence used when building these systems to include the full spectrum of behavior we humans use to make sense of the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Key to achieving this is the idea of &#8220;Indigenous data sovereignty.&#8221; This would mean Indigenous people retain sovereignty over their own data, in the sense that they own and control access to it.<\/p>\n<p>In Australia, a collective known as <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maiamnayriwingara.org\/\">Maiam nayri Wingara<\/a> offers important considerations and principles for data sovereignty and governance. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maiamnayriwingara.org\/mnw-principles\">They affirm Indigenous rights to govern and control our data ecosystems<\/a>, from creation to infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The National Agreement on Closing the Gap <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.closingthegap.gov.au\/national-agreement\/priority-reforms\">also affirms the importance<\/a> of Indigenous data control and access.<\/p>\n<p>This is reaffirmed at a global level as well. In 2020, a group of Indigenous scholars from around the world <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indigenous-ai.net\/position-paper\/\">published a position paper<\/a> laying out how Indigenous protocols can inform ethically created AI. This kind of AI would centralize the knowledges of Indigenous peoples.<\/p>\n<p>In a positive step, the Australian government&#8217;s recently proposed set of AI guardrails highlight the importance of Indigenous data sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the guardrails include the need to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.industry.gov.au\/publications\/voluntary-ai-safety-standard\/10-guardrails\">ensure additional transparency and make extra considerations<\/a> when it comes to using data about or owned by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, to &#8220;mitigate the perpetuation of existing <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> inequalities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Indigenous_Futurisms\"><\/span>Indigenous Futurisms<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.e-flux.com\/journal\/120\/417043\/taking-the-fiction-out-of-science-fiction-a-conversation-about-indigenous-futurisms\/\">Grace Dillon<\/a>, a scholar from a group of North American Indigenous people known as the Anishinaabe, first coined the term &#8220;Indigenous Futurisms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ambelin Kwaymullina, an academic and futurist practitioner from the Palyku nation in Western Australia, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cybernetics.anu.edu.au\/projects\/IndigenousFuturisms\/\">defines it as<\/a> &#8220;visions of what-could-be that are informed by ancient Aboriginal cultures and by our deep understandings of oppressive systems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These visions, Kwaymullina writes, are &#8220;as diverse as Indigenous peoples ourselves.&#8221; They are also unified by &#8220;an understanding of reality as living, interconnected whole in which human beings are but one strand of life among many, and a non-linear view of time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So how can AI technologies be informed by Indigenous ways of knowing?<\/p>\n<p>A first step is for industry to involve Indigenous people in creating, maintaining and evaluating the technologies\u2014rather than asking them retrospectively to approve work already done.<\/p>\n<p>Governments also need to do more than highlight the importance of Indigenous data sovereignty in policy documents. They need to meaningfully consult with Indigenous peoples to regulate the use of these technologies. This consultation must aim to ensure ethical AI behavior among organizations and everyday users that honors Indigenous worldviews and realities.<\/p>\n<p>AI developers and governments like to claim they are serious about ensuring AI technology benefits all of humanity. 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