{"id":649428,"date":"2025-01-16T01:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T22:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-new-research-program-is-indigenizing-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T01:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T22:20:18","slug":"a-new-research-program-is-indigenizing-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-new-research-program-is-indigenizing-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"#A new research program is Indigenizing artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 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-6a23a62be514f\" 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-6a23a62be514f\" 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\/a-new-research-program-is-indigenizing-artificial-intelligence\/#Relying_on_local_intelligence\" >Relying on local intelligence<\/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\/2025\/a-new-research-program.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2025\/a-new-research-program.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Jason Edward Lewis: &quot;The Abundant Intelligences research program is about deconstructing the scarcity mindset and making room for many kinds of intelligence and ways we might think about it.&quot; Credit: Concordia University\">\n<figure class=\"article-img\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2025\/a-new-research-program.jpg\" alt=\"A new research program led by Concordia is Indigenizing artificial intelligence\" title=\"Jason Edward Lewis: &quot;The Abundant Intelligences research program is about deconstructing the scarcity mindset and making room for many kinds of intelligence and ways we might think about it.&quot; Credit: Concordia University\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js text-truncate mt-3\">\n                Jason Edward Lewis: &#8220;The Abundant Intelligences research program is about deconstructing the scarcity mindset and making room for many kinds of intelligence and ways we might think about it.&#8221; Credit: Concordia University<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A new initiative steered by Concordia University researchers is challenging the conversation around the direction of artificial intelligence (AI). It charges that the current trajectory is inherently biased against non-Western modes of thinking about intelligence\u2014especially those originating from Indigenous cultures.<\/p>\n<p>As a way of decolonizing the future of AI, they have created the Abundant Intelligences research program: an international, multi-institutional and interdisciplinary program that seeks to rethink how we conceive of AI. The driving concept behind it is the incorporation of Indigenous knowledge systems to create an inclusive, robust concept of intelligence and intelligent action, and how that can be embedded into existing and future technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The full concept is <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/10.1007\/s00146-024-02099-4\" target=\"_blank\">described<\/a> in a recent paper for the journal <i>AI &amp; Society<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Artificial intelligence has inherited conceptual and intellectual ideas from past formulations of intelligence that took on certain colonial pathways to establish itself, such as emphasizing a kind of industrial or production focus,&#8221; says Ceyda Yolg\u00f6rmez, a postdoctoral fellow with Abundant Intelligences and one of the paper&#8217;s authors.<\/p>\n<p>They write that this scarcity mindset contributed to resource exploitation and extraction that has extended a legacy of Indigenous erasure that influences discussion around AI to this day, adds lead author Jason Edward Lewis. The professor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts is also the University Research Chair in Computational <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> and the Indigenous Future Imaginary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Abundant Intelligences research program is about deconstructing the scarcity mindset and making room for many kinds of intelligence and ways we might think about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The researchers believe this alternative <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>roach can create an AI that is oriented toward human thriving, that preserves and supports Indigenous languages, addresses pressing environmental and sustainability issues, re-imagines public health solutions and more.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                        <!-- TechX - News - In-article --><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Relying_on_local_intelligence\"><\/span>Relying on local intelligence<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The community-based research program is directed from Concordia in Montreal, but much of the local work will be done by individual research clusters (called pods) across Canada, in the United States and in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>The pods will be anchored to Indigenous-centered research and media labs at Western University in Ontario, the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, the University of Hawai&#8217;i\u2014West Oahu, Bard College in New York and Massey University in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>They bring together Indigenous knowledge-holders, cultural practitioners, language keepers, educational institutions and community organizations with research scientists, engineers, artists and social scientists to develop new computational practices fitted to an Indigenous-centered perspective.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers are also partnering with AI professionals and industry researchers, believing that the program will open new avenues of research and propose new research questions for mainstream AI research.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For example, how do you build a rigorous system out of a small amount of resource data like different Indigenous languages?&#8221; asks Yolg\u00f6rmez. &#8220;How do you make multi-agent systems that are robust, recognize and support non-human actors and integrate different sorts of activities within the body of a single system?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lewis asserts that their approach is both complementary and alternative to mainstream AI research, particularly regarding data sets like Indigenous languages that are much smaller than the ones currently being used by industry leaders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a commitment to working with data from Indigenous communities in an ethical way, compared to simply scraping the internet,&#8221; he says. &#8220;This yields miniscule amounts of data compared to what the larger companies are working with, but it presents the potential to innovate different approaches when working with small languages. That can be useful to researchers who want to take a different approach than the mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is one of the strengths of the decolonial approach: it&#8217;s one way to get out of this tunnel vision belief that there is only one way of doing things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>H\u0113mi Whaanga, professor at Massey University in New Zealand, also contributed to the paper.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-main__more p-4\">\n<p><strong>More information:<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJason Edward Lewis et al, Abundant intelligences: placing AI within Indigenous knowledge frameworks, <i>AI &amp; Society<\/i> (2024). <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-doi=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s00146-024-02099-4\" target=\"_blank\">DOI: 10.1007\/s00146-024-02099-4<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"d-inline-block text-medium my-4\">\n                                                Provided by<br \/>\n                                                                                                    Concordia University<br \/>\n                                                    \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon_open\" href=\"http:\/\/www.concordia.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<use href=\"https:\/\/techx.b-cdn.net\/tmpl\/v2\/img\/svg\/sprite.svg#icon_open\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/svg><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>                                        <!-- print only --><\/p>\n<div class=\"d-none d-print-block\">\n<p>\n                                                <strong>Citation<\/strong>:<br \/>\n                                                A new research program is Indigenizing artificial intelligence (2025, January 15)<br \/>\n                                                retrieved 15 January 2025<br \/>\n                                                from https:\/\/techxplore.com\/<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>\/2025-01-indigenizing-artificial-intelligence.html\n                                            <\/p>\n<p>\n                                            This document is subject to copyright. 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