Guidelines for Indigenous-Centred AI Design

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= "The guidelines are addressed to any group that wants to develop Artificial Intelligence systems in ways that are ethically responsible, where ‘ethical’ is defined as aligning with Indigenous perspectives".

URL = http://www.indigenous-ai.net/position-paper

Description

"The position paper on Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence (IP AI) is a starting place for those who want to design and create AI from an ethical position that centers Indigenous concerns. It is an attempt to capture multiple layers of a discussion that happened over 20 months, across 20 timezones, , during two workshops, and between Indigenous people (and a few non-Indigenous folks) from diverse communities in Aotearoa, Australia, North America, and the Pacific. Our aim is to articulate a multiplicity of Indigenous knowledge systems and technological practices that can and should be brought to bear on the ‘question of AI.’ To that end, rather than being a single unified statement this position paper is a collection of heterogeneous texts that range from design guidelines to scholarly essays to artworks to descriptions of technology prototypes to poetry.

The guidelines are addressed to any group that wants to develop Artificial Intelligence systems in ways that are ethically responsible, where ‘ethical’ is defined as aligning with Indigenous perspectives on what it means to live a good life. Our hope is that 1) Indigenous communities can use these guidelines as a starting point to define their own, community-specific guidelines, and 2) non-Indigenous technologists and policy-makers can use them start a productive conversation with Indigenous communities about how to enter into collaborative technology development efforts.