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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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Mana Without Mātauranga – Digital Ethics
First published: 9 April 2026 · Last updated: 16 October 2026 There is a pattern in New Zealand’s AI and data governance landscape that is rarely named directly, but it is immediately recognisable to anyone who has worked in this…
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Human Resilience with AI
First published: 8 April 2026 · Last updated: 8 October 2026 I was honoured to be one of the 386 international AI ethics experts to contribute a short essay to the “Building a Human Resilience Infrastructure for the Age of…
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AI Bias with Māori in Job Interviews
First published: 26 March 2026 · Last updated: 11 November 2026 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…
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Meta’s Digital Ghost Patent
First published: 19 March 2026 · Last updated: 8 October 2026 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…
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Iran War and Data Sovereignty in New Zealand
First published: 15 March 2026 · Last updated: 8 October 2026 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…
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Governing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
First published: 13 March 2026 · Last updated: 8 October 2026 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,…
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Kaupapa Māori AI Framework
First published: 6 March 2026 · Last updated: 10 November 2026 He Tangata, He Karetao, He Ātārangi: A person, a puppet, a shadow I am excited to release, perhaps the world’s first Indigenous Peoples AI Framework for understanding and describing…
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Māori usage of the Internet and AI
First published: 4 March 2026 · Last updated: 8 October 2026 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…
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Facial Recognition, Algorithmic Bias, and Compounded Harm to Māori and Pacific Communities
First published: 1 March 2026 · Last updated: 27 October 2026 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…
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Responsible AI in New Zealand
First published: 19 February 2026 · Last updated: 8 October 2026 New Zealand has developed a comprehensive suite of AI governance instruments, including the Algorithm Charter (Stats NZ, 2020), Privacy Act 2020, Digital Identity Services Trust Framework Act 2023, Biometric…
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Māori AI and Unequal Futures
First published: 9 February 2026 · Last updated: 8 October 2026 The New Zealand Reserve Bank released a report “Assessing AI and Robotics Exposure in the New Zealand Labour Market Using Large Language Models“. The analysis finds that Māori workers appear…
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Autonomous AI Governance Guidance for New Zealand Organisations
First published: 6 February 2026 · Last updated: 8 October 2026 This document provides governance guidance for New Zealand organisations considering the deployment of autonomous AI agents. It is not legal advice. It is written by a practitioner with governance…
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Māori likely to see graphic or extreme content
First published: 27 January 2026 · Last updated: 23 October 2026 The 2026 Online Exposure: Experiences of Extreme or Illegal Content in Aotearoa report from the Classification Office provides a comprehensive look at the prevalence and impact of extreme or…
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AI blackface – Is te ao Māori next?
First published: 17 January 2026 · Last updated: 8 October 2026 A social media wildlife expert called a First Nations version of Steve Irwin drew a large following that The Guardian exposed the account as an AI-generated character. A South…
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Bias in Health AI
First published: 15 December 2025 · Last updated: 27 October 2026 When Clinical Algorithms Don’t See Us. Māori Data Sovereignty Approaches to Detecting and Mitigating Bias in Health AI The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic decision support…
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Māori Forensic Deceased Data
First published: 8 December 2025 · Last updated: 16 October 2026 Tikanga Māori Perspectives on Forensic Data: Dr Angela Clark on Digital Governance for Tūpāpaku in Aotearoa New Zealand Emerging forensic technologies, high-resolution imaging, 3D reconstructions, and AI-assisted analysis are…
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Māori views of Digital Credentials
First published: 3 December 2025 · Last updated: 8 October 2026 In New Zealand, a digital credential is a secure, digital version of something that proves who you are or what you’re entitled to, for example your identity, age, or…
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Will the AI bubble burst
First published: 16 November 2025 · Last updated: 8 October 2026 Is the AI Bubble About to Burst? Understanding the 2025 Market Wobble Recent headlines warning of an “AI bubble burst” have dominated tech news as AI-linked stocks experience significant…
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AI and Generative AI Policy template for education
First published: 14 November 2025 · Last updated: 16 October 2026 An AI & Generative AI Policy in education isn’t optional anymore. Schools and tertiary institutions are already surrounded by AI, whether they have a policy or not. Students are…
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Māori Health Data Sovereignty realised
First published: 3 November 2025 · Last updated: 8 October 2026 For the first time, the rohe of Te Taura Ora o Waiāriki (Te Arawa IMPB) will have access to a dashboard built from data specific to their people recognising…
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Risks of AI Agents to Māori
First published: 26 October 2025 · Last updated: 27 October 2026 AI Agents are to Māori what Captain Cook and his Endeavour Ship and crew were. If Māori understood the challenges and intergenerational colonisation they were capable of, the historical…
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Loss of mātauranga to AI
First published: 17 October 2025 · Last updated: 27 October 2026 Using paid, proprietary AI subscription services to build reo Māori and mātauranga models introduces serious risks of cultural appropriation, loss of control, and contested ownership. Māori have always been…
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AI and Pepeha
First published: 12 October 2025 · Last updated: 27 October 2026 After generations of successful assimilation of Māori culture by governments including Native Schools, Tohunga Suppression Act, The Hunn Report, etc, many Māori were left without knowing their identity. There…
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NZ and Australia companies prioritise Data Sovereignty
First published: 5 October 2025 · Last updated: 8 October 2026 The Datacom 2025 ANZ Cloud and Infrastructure Report reveals a marked escalation in concerns surrounding data sovereignty among organisations across Australia and New Zealand. These concerns are primarily driven…
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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/