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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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Indigenous Legal Knowledge and the Future of Legal Scholarship
First published: 14 October 2026 · Last updated: 17 October 2026 This is a copy of a post I wrote for Verfassungsblog Symposium in the series Thinking Machines, Thinking Lawyers. The title is “What AI Cannot See; Indigenous Legal Knowledge…
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Tikanga Māori perspective of the Internet
First published: 11 October 2026 Karaitiana N Taiuru · 17 April 2015 These two presentations were first presented by Karaitiana Taiuru to the Open Source/Open Society 2015 conference (Indigenous break out session) in Wellington on April 17 2015. N Part…
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Macrons in Domain Names: History and a Practical Guide to IDNs in .nz (2006–2026)
First published: 10 October 2026 Māori Macrons in Domain Names: The History and a Practical Guide to IDNs in .nz (2006–2026) By Dr Karaitiana Taiuru. Consolidated on 10 October 2026 from twelve posts first published between 28 April 2006 and…
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NZ media coverage of AI and Māori
First published: 10 October 2026 · Last updated: 11 October 2026 Māori are named in only about a third of New Zealand news stories about Artificial Intelligence (AI). Māori are talked about, but rarely heard. When you count who is…
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Principles for Digital Identity
First published: 28 September 2026 · Last updated: 25 October 2026 Introduction Digital identity in New Zealand (DIiNZ) must recognise that Māori identity is not only an attribute of an individual account, but also relational, collective, and grounded in whakapapa,…
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Social Licence and Te Tiriti o Waitangi
First published: 26 September 2026 · Last updated: 25 October 2026 What is a social licence? A social licence to operate (SLO) is the ongoing acceptance or approval that an organisation receives from communities and other groups affected by its…
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NZ racist AI generated ad
First published: 23 September 2026 · Last updated: 16 October 2026 Voyager Broadband‘s (Actrix Networks, 1st Domains / Affordable Domains / Register Direct) latest advertisement (via RNZ) shows two Māori/Pacific men, one of whom is attacking a Pākehā man by…
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Govt AI Framework
First published: 15 September 2026 · Last updated: 9 November 2026 CASE STUDY –The need for Māori Expertise in AI Governance and Policy and Frameworks. In May 2026 the Ministry for Regulation published guidance on the use of Artificial Intelligence…
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Māori led framework for data centre development
First published: 31 August 2026 · Last updated: 8 October 2026 This article explores a proposed Māori led framework for datacentre development. Using a Māori owned and developed framework using environmental protections that are interwoven in tikanga Māori that respect…
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Māori Data Sovereignty preferences in GenAI
First published: 20 August 2026 · Last updated: 16 October 2026 This post analyses public preferences of the use of GenAI in the policy decision-making process across New Zealand and compares non-New Zealand Māori to other New Zealand’s preferences. The…
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Tikanga Māori with Smart glasses
First published: 9 August 2026 · Last updated: 16 October 2026 There is an urgent need for marae to implement new kawa and tikanga to protect the people form anonymously being AI’s training data. Camera glasses (pervert glasses) now sold…
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Record of stolen Māori Knowledge by AI
First published: 1 August 2026 · Last updated: 16 October 2026 My ongoing investigation of scraped and stolen Māori knowledge by AI has identified more than 80 Māori authors, 8 non Māori kaupapa Māori authors (194 plus titles) and song…
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Māori Data Sovereignty Operationalised with Google Maps
First published: 5 July 2026 · Last updated: 8 October 2026 This week Google Maps began rolling out a New Zealand voice that pronounces te reo Māori place names correctly. Place name Whangārei with the soft “f” sound from an…
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Deep fake harms real scenario and new legislation
First published: 21 June 2026 · Last updated: 8 October 2026 Too often in New Zealand, AI safety folk (who usually have a high level of privilege or are detached from vulnerable communities), will reference international AI stories highlighting harms…
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Tikanga AI images of a person
First published: 17 June 2026 · Last updated: 8 October 2026 A New Zealand model Elijah Timmins-Scanlon alleges streetwear brand Huffer is generating models with AI, using the likeness of models from previous Huffer campaigns, without disclosure. Shockingly, On 6…
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Māori Data Sovereignty and the Fragility of Borrowed AI
First published: 13 June 2026 · Last updated: 8 October 2026 Anthropic the company behind the Claude AI received with no warning or explanation, a directive directing them to immediately suspend access to their Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models…
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Human Oversight in Automated Decision Making
First published: 7 June 2026 · Last updated: 25 October 2026 The New Zealand media continue to report on AI harms from a western, academic, middle-class perspective while continuing to make invisible communities silent and ignored. This is a te…
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Ministry’s AI Guidance- wrong Māori advice
First published: 27 May 2026 · Last updated: 16 October 2026 The Ministry for Regulation’s Responsible AI in Action guidance (May 2026) represents a credible foundation for regulators engaging with Artificial Intelligence. However, the guidance contains a significant and consequential…
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NZ FTA with India – dangers for Māori
First published: 24 May 2026 · Last updated: 27 October 2026 In 1907, the New Zealand Government passed an Act with a single purpose: to suppress tohunga and the traditional Māori knowledge and beliefs they held. It was not repealed…
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Replacing public servants with AI – costs to Māori
First published: 21 May 2026 · Last updated: 27 October 2026 The current coalition government has announced the elimination of approximately 8,700 public sector positions or 14% of the public workforce alongside NZ$2.4 billion in spending reductions over three years,…
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Māori Privacy Survey Findings 2026
First published: 15 May 2026 · Last updated: 1 November 2026 The Office of the Privacy Commissioner’s 2026 survey on privacy concerns and the use of personal information tells a story that New Zealand policymakers, technologists, and public institutions would…
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AI Agents and Legal Personhood in New Zealand
First published: 3 May 2026 · Last updated: 16 October 2026 In this article I extend my earlier analysis of Māori cultural perspectives on AI sentience and legal personhood to the specific and urgent case of agentic AI systems, those…
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Google DeepMind hires ‘philosopher’
First published: 15 April 2026 · Last updated: 8 October 2026 As AI systems grow more capable, companies appear increasingly willing to look beyond traditional engineering disciplines for guidance on questions that touch on consciousness, identity and what it means…
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Personal Māori Data Sovereignty
First published: 14 April 2026 · Last updated: 25 October 2026 I am often asked by individuals how they can better implement Data and Digital Sovereignty in their home and whānau lives. Here are some immediate steps you can take…
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Taiuru, K.N. (2010, August 22). Blog – Te Kete o Karaitiana Taiuru. Taiuru & Associates Ltd. https://www.taiuru.co.nz/blog-2/