Abstract:
Colloquially known as AI, generative artificial intelligence refers to a range of technologies that draw on large language models to generative texts, images and videos. The term artificial intelligence, or “AI” is a blanket term to refer to a range of technologies that exist in many different forms. The terms generative AI, and AI are used to refer to a range of platforms that use artificial means to generate texts, images and videos. This includes OpenAI platforms such as ChatGPT, or Uncle Chatty Gee. Generative AI has become increasingly popular as a language model to generate and locate information with ease.
This presentation will explore Indigenous considerations from so-called Australia (Carlson and Farrelly, 2023) when utilising generative AI tools such as ChatGPT. With a lens on education, this research looks at the ways that generative AI tools can harm Indigenous knowledges, peoples, languages as well as Country.
Indigenous peoples have historically and continue to be overwhelmingly targeted by structural and strategic misinformation. AI learns from and draws its information from data. The data that is produced about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is often highly problematic and inaccurate, and Indigenous scholars have spent the past three decades debunking misinformation and disinformation has been provided in scholarly articles as factual. Concerningly, there are no mechanisms in place to ensure the content accessed by AI is accurate, culturally safe and appropriate.
The Australian Government’s Interim Report 2024, Safe and Responsible AI in Australia Consultation makes no reference to Indigenous peoples, indicating a significant issue concerning safety and Indigenous intellectual and cultural rights.
AI futures are here and present, and AI has a lot to learn from Indigenous knowledges to ensure we can have Indigenous futures where we thrive, and our knowledges are not further damaged by harmful technologies. It is through our Indigenous solidarities in research we are able to thrive and grow. I am able to conduct research in a western institution through the work of those who have come before me – Indigenous scholars and leaders have paved the way for me to exist in the academy.
This presentation will explore Indigenous considerations from so-called Australia (Carlson and Farrelly, 2023) when utilising generative AI tools such as ChatGPT. With a lens on education, this research looks at the ways that generative AI tools can harm Indigenous knowledges, peoples, languages as well as Country.
Indigenous peoples have historically and continue to be overwhelmingly targeted by structural and strategic misinformation. AI learns from and draws its information from data. The data that is produced about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is often highly problematic and inaccurate, and Indigenous scholars have spent the past three decades debunking misinformation and disinformation has been provided in scholarly articles as factual. Concerningly, there are no mechanisms in place to ensure the content accessed by AI is accurate, culturally safe and appropriate.
The Australian Government’s Interim Report 2024, Safe and Responsible AI in Australia Consultation makes no reference to Indigenous peoples, indicating a significant issue concerning safety and Indigenous intellectual and cultural rights.
AI futures are here and present, and AI has a lot to learn from Indigenous knowledges to ensure we can have Indigenous futures where we thrive, and our knowledges are not further damaged by harmful technologies. It is through our Indigenous solidarities in research we are able to thrive and grow. I am able to conduct research in a western institution through the work of those who have come before me – Indigenous scholars and leaders have paved the way for me to exist in the academy.