How AI can adapt to Indigenous knowledge

How to change minds + hunting with care

https://medium.com/blog/how-ai-can-adapt-to-indigenous-knowledge-2ae3cd442096

“In addition to systemic reform, individual users can also push back. UN researcher Cornelia C. Walther developed what she calls the “A-Armor Defense System” for users to identify harmful biases in AI:

• Assumptions: What worldview is baked into this AI? Does it assume Indigenous peoples exist only in the past?
• Alternatives: Before accepting AI answers about Indigenous topics, seek out Indigenous-created sources.
• Authority: Who designed this system, and were Indigenous communities consulted or excluded?
• Accuracy: When AI describes colonization as “settlement,” cross-reference with Indigenous scholars.
• Agenda: Who benefits from this framing? When AI presents Indigenous land as “empty wilderness,” whose interests does that serve?

Thankfully, Indigenous communities are already taking the lead in shaping AI on their own terms.”