Dr Karaitiana Taiuru regularly composes blog posts on topics relating to Māori and Artificial Intelligence, Data Sovereignty, Safety, Cultural Appropriation and other related topics. Please subscribe to the RSS feed http://www.taiuru.co.nz/rss to keep up to date.
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X is allowing 3rd parties to train AI on its data starting Nov 15
Earlier this week X (formerly Twitter) updated its Privacy Policy to indicate that it would allow third-party “collaborators” to train their AI models on X data, unless users opt out. Thanks to TechCrunch who first published the details. If you have already locked down…
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Demise of the io domain name
The dot io domain name is a common General Top Level Domain Name (GTLD) for many tech companies, but also for some Māori groups in part for the tech abbreviation for input/output but also as it is the name of…
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Māori and Iwi investments in NZ data centres
In the past month, we saw for the first time, a major Iwi, Ngāti Toa announce their investment into one of New Zealand’s many geographically located data centres, while also a Trans-Tasman Indigenous regional edge datacentre provider Gambarra Kaha announced…
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Cross-agency survey of use cases for Artificial Intelligence
The Government Chief Digital Officer (GCDO) released results of the 2024 cross-agency survey of use cases for artificial intelligence (AI). The results are not surprising when read and considered in conjunction with Aotearoa New Zealand business surveys and privacy perceptions…
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First New Zealand government agency to trial Generative AI
According toRadioNZ article, ACC is the first New Zealand government agency to trial Generative AI over the past year using Microsoft’s Copilot in tests. This article covers the key points and looks at the benefits and risks to Māori. Key…
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Māori and First Nations Australia musicians views of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
New Zealand and Australian musicians were surveyed about their views of Artificial Intelligence and its impacts on their music, in addition Māori and Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders were segmented out creating a unique Indigenous Peoples perspective of AI and…
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How AI can help Indigenous language revitalisation, and why data sovereignty is important
Using the interview with Michael Running Wolf at https://www-cbc-ca.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7290740 , I offer some commentary and key warnings for Māori language that I am already seeing occurring here in Aotearoa New Zealand. “Indigenous language experts working in computer science say…
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Māori Data Jurisdiction: Myths, Risks & Hosting Analysis
Māori Data Jurisdiction: What the Principle Means, the Cloud Hosting Myths, and Where Māori Data Is Actually Hosted By Dr Karaitiana Taiuru. First published 11 August 2024; combined with “Māori Data Jurisdiction” (26 November 2024) and updated 10 October 2026.…
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The Phantom Article 4 of Te Tiriti o Waitangi
This article debunks the false narrative that Te Tiriti o Waitangi has a hidden or overlooked Article 4 that gave Māori the right to religious freedom. Despite all political parties agreeing there is no Article 4, that Article 4 is…
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ChatGPT and its gender bias with te reo Māori
This article looks at the gender bias with Māori language translations using the non gender specific pronoun in the Māori language ‘ia’. There is a significant amount of historical and recent research with, but not limited to Large language models…
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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…
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Safeguarding whānau, iwi, hapū, marae, rōpū 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Māori Voices in the Artificial Intelligence Landscape
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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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/tangi notices and online funeral streaming accounts. This is a scam. Facebook and other social media has become an…
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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…
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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…
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6 Te Tiriti Based Artificial Intelligence Ethical Principles
These peer reviewed Māori AI principles were originally written by Dr Karaitiana Taiuru and should be read with Māori Data Sovereignty Principles to provide a Māori and Te Tiriti perspective on Artificial Intelligence with Health, complimenting the ‘Principals section’ written…