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  • AI Bias with Māori in Job Interviews

    AI Bias with Māori in Job Interviews

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    The past few days we are hearing about AI and recruitment issues with you a young man who faced bias. I am increasingly concerned that the media is not giving Māori any consideration with their AI bias stories, relying on academics for opinions and for them to talk about us like we are not capable

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  • Meta’s Digital Ghost Patent

    Meta’s Digital Ghost Patent

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Meta’s Digital Ghost Patent: A Te Ao Māori Analysis   IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR FACEBOOK AND META USERS On 30 December 2025, Meta was granted a United States patent that would allow its platforms to use Artificial Intelligence to construct a digital simulation of you, trained on your posts, messages, voice recordings, browsing history, and purchases and

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  • Iran War and Data Sovereignty in New Zealand

    Iran War and Data Sovereignty in New Zealand

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    For millennia, combatants have sought to cripple adversaries by destroying the infrastructure that sustains them, poisoning wells, burning bridges, bombing railways and oil refineries. In the war now engulfing the Middle East, data centres have emerged as a new category of target. The conflict has produced what analysts believe are the first publicly confirmed physical

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  • Governing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

    Governing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Artificial intelligence is no longer an emerging technology on the horizon, it is here, transforming industries, reshaping workforces, and fundamentally altering how organisations create value. For New Zealand boards, AI represents both a profound opportunity and a significant governance challenge. Directors who treat AI as purely a technical matter, something to be delegated to the

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  • Kaupapa Māori AI Framework

    Kaupapa Māori AI Framework

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    I am excited to release, perhaps the world’s first Indigenous Peoples AI Framework for understanding and describing the nature of an Artificial Intelligence (AI). Drawing on mātauranga Māori, tikanga Māori, and te reo Māori, the framework is encapsulated in the whakatauāki :He Tangata, He Karetao, He Ātārangi” (A person, a puppet, a shadow). Each term describes

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  • Māori usage of the Internet and AI

    Māori usage of the Internet and AI

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    InternetNZ recently released their annual “New Zealand’s Internet Insights 2025 survey findings” report. The following extracted form the report looks at Māori usage and is largely unchanged data from 2010. The Artificial Intelligence remains the same as the previous year.   Internet Use Māori are heavier internet users than NZ Europeans — 54% spend 4+

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  • Facial Recognition, Algorithmic Bias, and Compounded Harm to Māori and Pacific Communities

    Facial Recognition, Algorithmic Bias, and Compounded Harm to Māori and Pacific Communities

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    A new paper I’ve written looks at Foodstuffs South Island’s facial recognition trial in Christchurch and raises serious questions about who bears the risk. The three trial stores sit in suburbs where Māori and Pacific populations are well below the city average. The stores excluded from the trial are in the suburbs with the highest

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