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  • DeepSeek versus ChatGPT for Māori

    DeepSeek versus ChatGPT for Māori

    The introduction of the Chinese AI DeepSeek has been a popular media topic this week. Some of the topics include how much faster it is and how much cheaper it is to run. Concerns about how high-end computer chips were obtained by the Chinese company despite a trade ban on their expert to China from…

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  • AI Plagiarism of Māori Data and Storage

    AI Plagiarism of Māori Data and Storage

    It is a well documented fact in New Zealand and all over the world, that Artificial Intelligence and in particular Large Language Learning Models (LLMs) have been used for student plagiarism in schools, training institutes and universities. Not so well documented are the false notifications that result in innocent students being accused of cheating and…

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  • Inconsistencies with Facial Recognition Trial

    Inconsistencies with Facial Recognition Trial

    Foodstuffs North Island (FSNI) controversially started a Facial Recognition Trial in their stores for what they claimed to provide more protection to their staff. There are mountains of research and cases of innocent people of colour being falsely identified by Facial Recognition Technologies, false arrests, being identified as gorillas etc. In April this year, the…

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  • Treatment of Māori language in language modelling

    Treatment of Māori language in language modelling

    This is my contribution as a critical Indigenous Researcher to the Nature Journal’s article “Increasing the presence of Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) researchers in computational science”  regarding language revitalisation and Artificial Intelligence, along with many other international voices. The Māori language was banned by native schools and other government led assimilation practices in…

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  • X (Formerly Twitter) is allowing 3rd parties to train AI on its data starting Nov 15

    X (Formerly Twitter) 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 your Twitter Privacy, there appears no change. This is a timely reminder that your posts…

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  • Māori and Iwi investments in NZ data centres

    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 that they have expanded operations to New Zealand with a sole Māori Director. Both announcements…

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  • Cross-agency survey of use cases for Artificial Intelligence

    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 of AI by the Aotearoa New Zealand public. Of surprise though, is the guidance discriminates…

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  • First New Zealand government agency to trial Generative AI

    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 points from the article: Most importantly and most reassuring is the government’s chief digital officer…

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  • Māori and First Nations Australia musicians views of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

    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 their music. The report AI and Music market development of AI in the music sector…

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  • How AI can help Indigenous language revitalisation, and why data sovereignty is important

    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 Artificial Intelligence is a useful tool in language revitalization but communities must prioritize the ownership…

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  • ChatGPT and its gender bias with te reo Māori

    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 (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Google Bard, or LLMs containing various biases including against females and…

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Is Synthetic Data a Taonga?

    Is Synthetic Data a Taonga?

    This brief post will discuss and analyse if synthetic digital data that is used with Māori Data, is itself Māori Data and therefore a Taonga. It will use traditional Māori customary values and beliefs (tikanga) and Māori Data Sovereignty principles and applying those in an Māori perspective, resulting in a non western perspective explaining if…

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  • Artificial Intelligence and Mātauranga Sovereignty

    Artificial Intelligence and Mātauranga Sovereignty

    I was honoured to present at the prestigious Gibbon Lectures earlier this year and to be hosted by the School of Computer Science at University of Auckland. I share my thoughts about how we (Māori) are at a crossroads in human evolution, and that AI could be used to decolonise and empower Māori. I discuss how all…

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  • Te Reo Māori revitalisation and adaption with AI

    Te Reo Māori revitalisation and adaption with AI

    ChatGPT has become a household name for many, and is usually in the mainstream media each day. There has been very little discussion about ChatGPT and the risks and benefits to Indigenous languages, and in particular Māori language – the indigenous language of New Zealand. ChatGPT and other Artificial Intelligence (AI) Language Learning Models (LLM’s)…

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  • Te Ao Māori considerations of AI with the dead and personal Data

    Te Ao Māori considerations of AI with the dead and personal Data

    Māori Data Sovereignty is now more crucial than ever, with “Dr. Pratik Desai, a Silicon Valley computer scientist who has founded multiple Artificial Intelligence platforms, boldly predicts that a human being’s “consciousness could be uploaded onto digital devices by the end of the year [2023]”. For my regular readers, you will know I predicted this…

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  • Google Civil Rights Audit – An opportunity for a Te Tiriti audit

    Google Civil Rights Audit – An opportunity for a Te Tiriti audit

    On Friday (Saturday NZT) Google released a Civil Rights Audit that it had voluntarily contracted an external law firm WilmerHale that examines how its policies and services impact civil rights and made a number of recommendations to address misinformation and hate speech. It is too American centric and doesn’t even appear to consider the Indigenous…

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  • Chatbots need Indigenous Beta testers

    Chatbots need Indigenous Beta testers

    Microsoft recently announced that it was upgrading it’s search engine Bing’ to include AI from OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. One new feature is a chat feature. Microsoft only sent out invites to select users so far, but it looks like it will be open for public testing in the coming weeks. At this early…

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  • Māori culture and language observations with ChatGPT

    Māori culture and language observations with ChatGPT

    ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a chatbot launched by OpenAI in November 2022.  It has been discussed by international mainstream media with many academics and education facilities concerned at it’s ability to assist with plagiarised writings and research. As with any new technologies, there is very little Indigenous perspectives or input into developments which…

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  • A Māori cultural perspective of AI/machine sentience

    A Māori cultural perspective of AI/machine sentience

    This is a copy of the opinion piece I wrote in the publication Goffi E. R., Momcilovic A., et al. (Eds). Can an AI be sentient? Multiple perspectives on sentience and on the potential ethical implications of the rise of sentient AI. Notes n° 2, (2022). Global AI Ethics Institute. The New Zealand Supreme Court…

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  • Indigenising through Te Taha Wairua: AI, Algorithms, Data, Internet and IOT

    Indigenising through Te Taha Wairua: AI, Algorithms, Data, Internet and IOT

    This article indigenises the Internet and the global digital eco-system which is often called the Web or digital network, and has been specifically written to assist with understanding Data sovereignty, Internet, systems, robotics, algorithms and Artificial Intelligence (AI) from a customary Māori perspective. For those who have been reading my series of articles, this is…

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  • Google Translate Māori – Sexist and Ignorant of LGBTQ+

    Google Translate Māori – Sexist and Ignorant of LGBTQ+

    Google Translate is another example of AI, Algorithms and Machine Learning discriminating against minorities, while misrepresenting the Maori language and customs . Google Translate interprets te reo Maori more accurately as it learns and is supporting the revival of te reo Māori. While it had the expertise of Dr Te Taka Keegan in its development,…

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  • Tikanga about animated pictures of the dead

    Tikanga about animated pictures of the dead

    A new technological trend of animating images of people is becoming popular with images Māori tipuna and other dead people being animated for fun without knowledge of the offence to Māori, whānau, hapū and Iwi, nor the tikanga breaches. The app is called “My Heritage app”. In the past week I have seen several images…

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  • Māori Cultural considerations with Facial Recognition Technology in New Zealand

    Māori Cultural considerations with Facial Recognition Technology in New Zealand

    The New Zealand Police, Customs, Ministry of Justice, DIA and other government agencies have a wide arsenal of Facial Recognition technologies with little or no regulation or consultation with Māori. This will likely lead to the likelihood of further widespread discrimination and cultural unsafe practices that will directly impact Māori as we have already seen…

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  • NZ Algorithm charter – Are Māori protected?

    NZ Algorithm charter – Are Māori protected?

    The Algorithm charter for Aotearoa New Zealand was released by the New Zealand Government earlier this year. The charter has the potential to further discriminate against Māori than the current biases of Data, Algorithms and Machine learning already does. This discrimination against minorities and women is well documented internationally. The government also claimed the Charter…

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  • Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti and Māori Ethics Guidelines for: AI, Algorithms, Data and IOT

    Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti and Māori Ethics Guidelines for: AI, Algorithms, Data and IOT

    Author: Karaitiana Taiuru Published: May 04, 2020 ISBN: 978-0-9582615 ISBN: 0-9582597-6-3 (Digital) Download Citation: (Taiuru, K. 2020. Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti and Māori Ethics Guidelines for: AI, Algorithms, Data and IOT. Retrieved from http://www.taiuru.Maori.nz/TiritiEthicalGuide).   Copyright © Copyright Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti and Māori Ethics Guidelines for: AI, Algorithms, Data and IOT by Karaitiana Taiuru…

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  • Submission on Government algorithm transparency and accountability

    Submission on Government algorithm transparency and accountability

    This is the Fifth in a series of articles I am writing about Māori ethics with AI, Data sovereignty and Robotics. Article 4: Treaty Clause Required for NZ Government AI Systems and Algorithms;  Article 3: Māori Ethical considerations with Artificial Intelligence Systems; Article 2:  Māori ethics associated with AI systems architecture and Article 1: Māori cultural…

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  • Treaty Clause Required for NZ Government AI Systems and Algorithms

    Treaty Clause Required for NZ Government AI Systems and Algorithms

    UPDATE: A complete set of Māori ethics Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti and Māori Ethics Guidelines for: AI, Algorithms, Data and IOT This is the fourth in a series of articles I am writing about Māori ethics with AI, Data sovereignty and Robotics. Article 3: Māori Ethical considerations with Artificial Intelligence Systems; Article 2:  Māori ethics…

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  • Māori Ethical considerations with Artificial Intelligence Systems

    Māori Ethical considerations with Artificial Intelligence Systems

    UPDATE: A complete set of Māori ethics Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti and Māori Ethics Guidelines for: AI, Algorithms, Data and IOT This is the third in a series of articles I am writing about Māori ethics with AI, Data sovereignty and Robotics*. Article 2  Māori ethics associated with AI systems architecture and Article 1 Māori…

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  • Māori ethics associated with AI systems architecture

    Māori ethics associated with AI systems architecture

    UPDATE: A complete set of Māori ethics Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti and Māori Ethics Guidelines for: AI, Algorithms, Data and IOT This is the second in a series of articles I am writing about Māori ethics with AI, Data sovereignty and Robotics. Article 1 Māori cultural considerations with Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Background My primary…

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  • Māori cultural considerations with Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

    Māori cultural considerations with Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

    UPDATE: A complete set of Māori ethics Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti and Māori Ethics Guidelines for: AI, Algorithms, Data and IOT This is the first in a series of articles I am writing about Māori ethics with AI, Data sovereignty and Robotics. Article 2  Māori ethics associated with AI systems architecture. I spent this week…

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  • Artificial Intelligence and Māori

    Artificial Intelligence and Māori

    I was interviewed to contribute a Māori perspective to the The Artificial Intelligence Forum of New Zealand (AIFNZ) inaugural report. It appears as though only my statement was published with no acknowledgements. In the whole report Māori is only considered in the  Part Three: AI and Society, Artificial Intelligence Shaping a Future New Zealand. The…

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