AI threatens Indigenous data sovereignty and digital self-determination – PCI
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are rapidly transforming our world, but the critical issues of the sovereignty of Indigenous data and Indigenous digital self-determination remain under-addressed.
For Indigenous communities around the world, AI is not merely a technological development. It is a potential new form of colonization – one that risks marginalizing their languages, cultures and agency unless meaningful safeguards are established. Indigenous communities must be seen not as mere beneficiaries of digital policy, but also as rightful leaders in shaping it.
With Taiwan and Canada expanding their partnerships in science, technology and democratic exchange, these two nations are in a unique position to co-create models of Indigenous-centred innovation to address this problem.
