The Indigenous Initiatives Team at CTLT engages with the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a number of different ways, including:
- Resource development
- Curriculum consultations
- Contributions to training modules for students
- Contributions to professional development for faculty and staff
The team is taking a critical approach to our engagement with AI, one grounded in uplifting the voices and perspectives of Indigenous educators, scholars, activists, artists and leaders. Our work reflects the fact that there is no singular “Indigenous perspective” on AI, and we aim to highlight many of those voices and approaches. Our approach is also grounded in an understanding that although AI may be relatively new, the issues it brings up are not, issues such as; data sovereignty, extraction, land (in)justice, appropriation, and bias. We are working collaboratively across teams to create the blog posts and resources to support this conversation across campus.
Getting Started
If you’re looking for further information on considerations for using AI in relation to Indigenous knowledge and content, an excellent place to start is the Principles and Guidelines for Generative ArtificialIntelligence (GenAI) in Teaching and Learning, in particular:
- 1c. Indigenous data sovereignty, protocols, and risks of harm
- 1d. Ethical considerations
AI Reflections Blog Series
Posts that centre Indigenous perspectives on AI as well as interviews with members of the UBC community:
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Read more: AI Reflections: Faculty Spotlight on Daisy Rosenblum – Part 2AI Reflections: Faculty Spotlight on Daisy Rosenblum – Part 2
Welcome back to our interview with Dr. Daisy Rosenblum, Assistant Professor cross-appointed in the First Nations and Endangered Languages Program within the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies, and the Department…
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Read more: AI Reflections: Faculty Spotlight on Tricia LoganAI Reflections: Faculty Spotlight on Tricia Logan
We recently had the opportunity to have a conversation with Dr. Tricia Logan where she shared her insights on how AI is impacting her teaching and research at UBC.
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Read more: AI Reflections: Faculty Spotlight on Daisy Rosenblum – Part 1AI Reflections: Faculty Spotlight on Daisy Rosenblum – Part 1
Earlier this spring, we had the pleasure of sitting down with Dr. Daisy Rosenblum to talk about AI and its impacts on teaching and learning at UBC and on community-based language work. This is part 1 of 2.
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Read more: AI Reflections: Language and Artificial IntelligenceAI Reflections: Language and Artificial Intelligence
In this post, we’ll look at what happens when AI is used without community consultation, before turning to encouraging examples of communities working with AI to support language revitalization.
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Read more: AI Reflections: Faculty Spotlight on Alexander RossAI Reflections: Faculty Spotlight on Alexander Ross
Alexander Ross He/Him/His Assistant Professor School of Information, Faculty of Arts We recently had the privilege of sitting down with Dr. Alexander Ross from the School of Information to hear his…
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Read more: AI Reflections: Perpetuation of BiasAI Reflections: Perpetuation of Bias
AI uses data to generate content, identify patterns, summarize, and make predictions. This data exists as information firmly located in our past and present, even as it tries to move us into the future.…