Indigenous AI
Explore a range of resources about Indigenous Artificial Intelligence.
Key Readings
WEF agentic AI 2026
(opens in a new tab)Agentic AI systems are increasingly autonomous actors.
GIDA Communique: Indigenous Data Sovereignty and AI
(opens in a new tab)Ensure Indigenous data rights, governance, and protections are upheld in AI through Indigenous leadership, transparency, ethical safeguards, and impact assessment.
Summary of findings from GIDA AI workshop
(opens in a new tab)Indigenous Data Sovereignty underscores the need for Indigenous-led governance of AI to protect Indigenous rights, data, and knowledge.
Abundant Intelligences Pods
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- Perera, M., Vidanaarachchi, R., Chandrashekeran, S., Kennedy, M., Kennedy, B., & Halgamuge, S. (2025). Indigenous peoples and artificial intelligence: A systematic review and future directions. Big Data & Society, 12(2), 20539517251349170. https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517251349170 (opens in a new tab)
- Lewis, J. E. and A. Abdilla and N. Arista and K. Baker and S. Benesiinaabandan and Mi. Brown and M. Cheung and M. Coleman and A. Cordes and J. Davison and K. Duncan and S. Garzon and D. F. Harrell and P.-L. Jones and K. Kealiikanakaoleohaililani and M. Kelleher and S. Kite and O. Lagon and J. Leigh and M. Levesque and K. Mahelona and Moses, C. and others. (2020). Indigenous protocol and artificial intelligence position paper. Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence Working Group, Honolulu, Hawai`i. Retrieved from Dragonfly Data Science. (opens in a new tab)
- Lewis, J. E., Whaanga, H., & Yolgörmez, C. (2025). Abundant intelligences: placing AI within Indigenous knowledge frameworks. Ai & Society, 40(4), 2141-2157. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-02099-4 (opens in a new tab)
- Carlson, B., & Worrell, T. (2026). ‘No accountability, no checks and balances, no responsibility’: how Indigenous peoples think about AI. The Conversation. Retrieved from The Conversation. (opens in a new tab)
- "They came for our land, now they are coming for our data": Supporting digital sovereignty in the face of AI enclosures (opens in a new tab)
- A collaborative project of Suzanne Kite & Alishia B. Wormsley for New York City that is the result of workshops led by the two artists with other Black and Indigenous people engaged in dreamwork -- the exploration of dreams (opens in a new tab)
- All My Relations Episode: Indigenous AI: Revolution or Colonizer Bullsh*it? (opens in a new tab)
- The Radical AI Podcast: Indigenous AI 101 with Jason Edward Lewis (opens in a new tab)