Indigenous resistance to AI

I was researching and writing a post about Indigenous people in tech when I discovered an amazing company called Animikii and their resources about data sovereignty and resisting generative AI (thanks to this article, Celebrating Indigenous Tech).

Animikii have two downloadable ebooks:

#DataBack: Asserting and Supporting Indigenous Data Sovereignty

Indigenous data are information about Indigenous peoples. Our communities, our cultures, our lands, our histories, our lives. Indigenous data sovereignty then is the inherent right of our nations to govern the collection, ownership and use of our data. Simple right?

But how does that actually work in practice? And why is it important to the well-being and future of Indigenous peoples? That’s what this eBook explores deeply.

– Animikii, Data Back

Understanding and Resisting Generative AI

Our focus for this eBook is understanding and assessing the current state of what the tech industry calls  “Generative Artificial Intelligence.” How does it work? Does it even work? 

We ground our analysis via the rights framework of the United Nations Declaration of Indigenous Peoples and the CARE principles of Indigenous Data Sovereignty to help you understand how to better protect Indigenous data. 

Our eBook aims to help you see through the marketing to understand the technology that many are calling “Generative Artificial Intelligence.” 

– Animikii, Understanding and Resisting Generative AI