How Indigenous technologists are building data sovereignty into AI

Faced with a tech industry built on extraction, Indigenous technologists are exploring ways to build tools while protecting cultural and data sovereignty. At the Indigenous AI Gathering at Montréal AI institute Mila this week, Indigenous scholars, tech workers, and AI researchers delved into the tension between generative AI’s significant use of data and the ways it can be harnessed to build solutions to socioeconomic problems. The two-day conference featured presentations from the Indigenous Pa