#31. AI and Māori/Indigenous Data Sovereignty - Dr. Karaitiana Taiuru

Dr. Karaitiana Taiuru is a Māori technology ethicist specializing in Māori rights with Artificial intelligence, Māori Data Sovereignty and Governance with emerging digital technologies and biological sciences. He brings his extensive expertise in advocacy for digital Māori rights and data sovereignty and experience in roles including  Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor – Expert Advisory Committee on Artificial Intelligence. We discuss the issues facing indigenous communities with regards to current data systems, biases in artificial intelligence models, how to go about creating equitable systems of AI and what some of the future discussions policy makers need to be having.

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 4:17 Importance of Māori and indigenous data sovereignty vs Western ideas of data
• 10:04 Biases in data systems and AI
• 22:02 Assessing data sovereignty in context of international companies
• 29:23 Iwi/tribe/community data and reclaiming New Zealand data
• 39:12 Could an AI system have personhood if built on particular data?
• 49:37 Dr. Taiuru's research and wrap up