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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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  • 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 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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  • Indigenous versus Māori Data Sovereignty

    This article will introduce the many notions of Indigenous Data and Māori Data Sovereignty and explain the differences. It is becoming common in New Zealand that the terms Indigenous and Māori Data Sovereignty are interchangeably used by Māori Data practitioners and the Crown, removing all Te Tiriti, legal and moral rights to Māori Data and…

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  • Māori Data Sovereignty in the Agriculture industry

    Māori Data Sovereignty in the Agriculture industry

    Māori Data Sovereignty with Agriculture Data and how it could assist the Agriculture industry. A perspective piece co authored with myself and my two awesome colleagues Dr Karly Burch and Dr Susanna Finlay-Smits. A real Te Tiriti approach to sharing Māori and Western perspectives for the benefit of those in the Agriculture industry. Realising the promises of agricultural…

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  • The NZ Supreme Court Judgement and the impacts to Māori Data Sovereignty

    The NZ Supreme Court Judgement and the impacts to Māori Data Sovereignty

    This is an opinion piece as a Tikanga practitioner and Māori Data expert who is not a lawyer and has no formal legal training. The recent Supreme Court judgement recognises Tikanga Māori is common law and applicable in the legal system. This gives further impact and recognition to the legal status of Māori Data Sovereignty…

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