Te Kete o Karaitiana Taiuru (Blog)

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  • Governance issues, Māori Data Sovereignty and Privacy Issues with Slack

    Governance issues, Māori Data Sovereignty and Privacy Issues with Slack

    Slack is a cloud-based team communication platform developed by Slack Technologies, which has been owned by Salesforce since 2020. Slack has freemium and paid subscriptions. Slack’s primary userbase is businesses, and has functionalities primarily for businesses. It is also popular among many groups including Māori. Recently and very discreetly Slack announced on their Privacy Principles: Search,

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  • Safeguarding your whānau, iwi, hapū, marae, rōpū or your business from AI-generated deep fakes

    Safeguarding your whānau, iwi, hapū, marae, rōpū or your business from AI-generated deep fakes

    Deepfakes are forms of digitally altered media — including photos, videos and audio clips — that seem to depict a real person. They are created by training an AI system on real clips featuring a person, and then using that AI system to generate realistic (yet inauthentic) new media. Deepfake use is becoming more common.

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  • You really can’t disable Facebook’s Meta AI tool

    You really can’t disable Facebook’s Meta AI tool

    In a classic example of AI hallucinating or lying, Meta AI does lie to you. Or perhaps the AI engineers thought it would be funny to add the misinformation to Meta AI? There’s no way to disable Meta AI from either Facebook or Instagram. I asked Meta AI if I could disable it, and the

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  • First Māori woman victim in facial recognition trial in a month

    First Māori woman victim in facial recognition trial in a month

    Only 5 weeks ago I warned Facial Recognition Technology bias in the Foodstuffs trial was technically likely and not a matter of if, but when and that Māori women would likely be discriminated against. That same week Māori Television first reported “Māori women and women of colour will be targeted’ in Foodstuffs’ facial recognition trial

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  • AI media weekly commentary with Māori and Indigenous perspectives April 10

    AI media weekly commentary with Māori and Indigenous perspectives April 10

    This is the second media commendatory on Māori perspectives that relate to AI stories in the media and developments. Again, there are so many stories to consider. Week ending April 10, 2024. LinkedIn post – AI and IA pronouns Waipapa Taumata Rau The University of Auckland and AI expert Professor Michael Witbrock on LinkedIn authored

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  • Māori AI and data stories in the media this week

    Māori AI and data stories in the media this week

    I provide my commentary of this weeks 6 media stories of Māori related news regarding Artificial Intelligence and Data Sovereignty. Noting it is highly unusual for even one media story a week regarding Māori and Artificial Intelligence. It is also a reminder that we all must be talking about and recognising Artificial Intelligence is being

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  • Māori Voices in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand

    Māori Voices in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand

    Māori Peoples are at the cross roads with Artificial Intelligence and other emerging technologies; We can either turn right and decolonise and empower ourselves, or turn left and have status quo with all of the negative statistics and inequities. Featured Image Credit The AI Tribe. While the world faces the rapid growth of AI technologies,

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  • Artificial Intelligence Regulation from a Māori Perspective

    Artificial Intelligence Regulation from a Māori Perspective

    This thought-provoking commentary delves into the intersection of te ao Māori and Artificial Intelligence (AI) regulation. While many Māori have expressed a desire for AI regulation, this post raises the point that doing so too soon could have unintended consequences. It’s important to consider the implications of AI regulation from a te ao Māori perspective.

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  • Māori Opinions and Views Framework

    Māori Opinions and Views Framework

    This article explores why there is no ‘one Māori opinion’ and aims to dispel media and politicians comments about “Māori in fighting” use this to create further separation with Waitangi claims, iwi issues and other iwi/social issues that seem to make it to mainstream media. It is based upon Sir Mason Durie’s “Maori Health Decade

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  • Facial Recognition and Artificial Intelligence Profiling

    Facial Recognition and Artificial Intelligence Profiling

    This article was originally commissioned by Ngā Toki Whakarururanga for a general audience. For a Te Ao Māori perspective, refer to my 2020 article Māori Cultural considerations with Facial Recognition Technology in New Zealand. Since the news attention in February 2024 that Foodstuffs North Island Limited‘s New World and PAK’nSAVE is trailing Facial Recognition Technology

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  • Scammers target Māori Tangi

    Scammers target Māori Tangi

    In a new threat to Māori online,  a new scam is increasing where scammers are creating false social media accounts as death notices and online funeral streaming accounts. Facebook and other social media has become an essential way of communications, particularly with Māori. Many of us find that if we stop using social media, we

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  • Feasibility of maori as a new Internet address

    Feasibility of maori as a new Internet address

    First published in 2012 as a pdf and republished in 2024. Discussion about the costs, procedures and the currently vast amount of space on the Internet for Māori that is either underutilised or not utilised at all. The issue that it will take at least two separate, but more likely three separate applications to have

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  • Understanding Domain Names in New Zealand

    Understanding Domain Names in New Zealand

    With information relating to .iwi.nz and .maori.nz and domain name disputes (2016) Karaitiana N Taiuru and Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara Fist published in 2016 as a pdf. Republished in 2023 as a post. Introduction This paper is a beginners guide to Internet Domain names in New Zealand with some reference to other domain names outside of

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  • Māori being used as ‘guinea pigs’ for facial recognition tech by MSD

    Māori being used as ‘guinea pigs’ for facial recognition tech by MSD

    This post elaborates on my RNZ interview about the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) rolling out Facial Recognition Technology for beneficiaries to self-identity online without the need to visit a MSD office, despite the well documented racism and bias of the systems. The Ministry of Social Development’s decision is lacking a privacy, human rights, and

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  • 6 Te Tiriti Based Artificial Intelligence Ethical Principles by Karaitiana Taiuru

    6 Te Tiriti Based Artificial Intelligence Ethical Principles by Karaitiana Taiuru

    These peer reviewed principles were originally written by Dr Karaitiana Taiuru, to provide a Māori and Te Tiriti perspective on Artificial Intelligence with Health, complimenting the ‘Principals section’ written by Professor James Maclaurin – Te Whare Wānanga o Ōtākou | The University of Otago, for inclusion into the collaborative and peer reviewed report “Capturing the

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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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