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  • Protecting Mātauranga on web sites from ChatGPT and Search Engines

    Protecting Mātauranga on web sites from ChatGPT and Search Engines

    This article is primarily for Māori web site content owners who may have some mātauranga Māori on their web sites that they do not want consumed by ChatGPT and other AI or search engines, or who simply want to exercise their own Māori Data Sovereignty principles and rights as afforded by Te Tiriti o Waitangi.…

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  • Te Tiriti o Waitangi Principles for Robotics

    Te Tiriti o Waitangi Principles for Robotics

    These principles have been adapted to general robotics for both the industry and research to better assist the industry to acknowledge Te Tiriti o Waitangi. If creating robotics for health, then there are nationally agreed Te Tiriti principles for health that should be used in stead. For researchers, these principles can be used as a…

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  • Is anonymised Māori Data a Taonga?

    Is anonymised Māori Data a Taonga?

    Anonymised Data is a western perspective for data that is anonymous as they human eye can’t see where the data came from, who the data is about and where the data originated from. From A Te Ao Māori (traditional Māori cultural perspective) anonymous Māori Data that originates from Māori Data, then that anonymous data is…

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  • Is Synthetic Data a Taonga?

    Is Synthetic Data a Taonga?

    This brief post will discuss and analyse if synthetic digital data that is used with Māori Data, is itself Māori Data and therefore a Taonga. It will use traditional Māori customary values and beliefs (tikanga) and Māori Data Sovereignty principles and applying those in an Māori perspective, resulting in a non western perspective explaining if…

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  • Artificial Intelligence and Mātauranga Sovereignty

    Artificial Intelligence and Mātauranga Sovereignty

    I was honoured to present at the prestigious Gibbon Lectures earlier this year and to be hosted by the School of Computer Science at University of Auckland. I share my thoughts about how we (Māori) are at a crossroads in human evolution, and that AI could be used to decolonise and empower Māori. I discuss how all…

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  • Te Reo Māori revitalisation and adaption with AI

    Te Reo Māori revitalisation and adaption with AI

    ChatGPT has become a household name for many, and is usually in the mainstream media each day. There has been very little discussion about ChatGPT and the risks and benefits to Indigenous languages, and in particular Māori language – the indigenous language of New Zealand. ChatGPT and other Artificial Intelligence (AI) Language Learning Models (LLM’s)…

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  • Te Ao Māori considerations of AI with the dead and personal Data

    Te Ao Māori considerations of AI with the dead and personal Data

    Māori Data Sovereignty is now more crucial than ever, with “Dr. Pratik Desai, a Silicon Valley computer scientist who has founded multiple Artificial Intelligence platforms, boldly predicts that a human being’s “consciousness could be uploaded onto digital devices by the end of the year [2023]”. For my regular readers, you will know I predicted this…

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  • Google Civil Rights Audit – An opportunity for a Te Tiriti audit

    Google Civil Rights Audit – An opportunity for a Te Tiriti audit

    On Friday (Saturday NZT) Google released a Civil Rights Audit that it had voluntarily contracted an external law firm WilmerHale that examines how its policies and services impact civil rights and made a number of recommendations to address misinformation and hate speech. It is too American centric and doesn’t even appear to consider the Indigenous…

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  • Chatbots need Indigenous Beta testers

    Chatbots need Indigenous Beta testers

    Microsoft recently announced that it was upgrading it’s search engine Bing’ to include AI from OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. One new feature is a chat feature. Microsoft only sent out invites to select users so far, but it looks like it will be open for public testing in the coming weeks. At this early…

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  • Māori culture and language observations with ChatGPT

    Māori culture and language observations with ChatGPT

    ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a chatbot launched by OpenAI in November 2022.  It has been discussed by international mainstream media with many academics and education facilities concerned at it’s ability to assist with plagiarised writings and research. As with any new technologies, there is very little Indigenous perspectives or input into developments which…

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