As Australia marks 50 years of NAIDOC Week, honoring the world’s oldest living culture, humanity’s newest technology has yet to reckon with a simple principle: “nothing about us, without us.” The concern is that artificial intelligence (AI), like so many technologies before it, will become another extractive force that “takes” Indigenous Knowledges without consent, credit or return.
Source: Science – Space – phys
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