“Abundant Intelligences: Indigenous Knowledges and AI” presented by Unknown presenters

Symposium:

• ISEA2024: 29th International Symposium on Electronic Art

• Art Science (institutional presentations)

• Abundant Intelligences: Indigenous Knowledges and AI

• Jason Lewis

Venue(s):

• Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Australia

• The Abundant Intelligences research program imagines anew how to conceptualize and design Artificial Intelligence (AI) based on Indigenous Knowledge (IK) systems. Our approach is grounded in Indigenous epistemologies containing robust conceptual frameworks for understanding how technology can be developed in ways that integrate it into existing lifeways, support the flourishing of future generations, and are optimized for abundance rather than scarcity. Our goal is to advance methods for improving AI to better serve Indigenous communities and others through exploring and developing culturally-grounded AI systems that support Indigenous ways of knowing and that recognize the abundant multiplicity of ways of being intelligent in the world. This institutional presentation will introduce Abundant Intelligences, a six-year international research program that aims at exploring how Indigenous Knowledge systems might provide pathways towards rebuilding AI’s epistemological foundations to transform these tools away from colonial practices of exclusion, extraction, manipulation, and eradication and into engines of abundance for increasing our care of one another and our world.

Keywords:

• Indigenous research
• Indigenous epistemologies
• Indigenous Knowledges
• artificial intelligence
• Machine Learning
• computational practice
• Cultural knowledge

Category:

• Institutional Presentation