After Dark | AI: Ancestral or Artificial Intelligence? | Exploratorium

Описание: AI: Ancestral or Artificial Intelligence?

With Melissa K. Nelson, Kaimana Barcarse, Daniel Golding, and Rebecca Tsosie.

Introduction by Sam Sharkland, Director of Public Programs, Exploratorium

What does “intelligence” really mean? Indigenous worldviews understand it as relational, collective, and deeply rooted in the natural world and ancestral wisdom, existing within the land, animals, plants, the ancestors, and the cosmos.

With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), these perspectives raise vital questions in the realms of ethics, data sovereignty, spirituality, and social justice. Join our panelists to explore how Indigenous scholars are challenging AI developers to rethink intelligence as a relational and ethical practice—and to co-create technologies that respect and reflect Indigenous worldviews and multiple ways of knowing. Is there a world in which AI is not only smart, but wise?

Facilitator and Panelists

Melissa K. Nelson (Turtle Mountain Chippewa), PhD is an Indigenous ecologist and award-winning scholar-activist and media-maker. She is a professor of Indigenous Sustainability at Arizona State University, professor emerita of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University, and chair of The Cultural Conservancy (TCC), a Native-led indigenous rights organization she led as the founding executive director for 28 years.

Kaimana Barcarse (Kānaka 'Ōiwi) leads the ʻĀina Sites Department of ʻĀina Pauahi at Kamehameha Schools, where he focuses on improving the capability and well-being of kānaka Hawaiʻi through access to a healthy community ecosystem with a focus on ʻĀina, Education, and Culture. He is also the vice-chair of the Hawaiʻi State Board of Education and a deep-sea voyager and captain.

A graduate of San Francisco State University, Daniel Golding (Fort Yuma Quechan) founded Hokan Media LLC in 1997 as a means to produce social issue documentary and narrative films on Native American stories. He recently served as series producer for season two of the acclaimed PBS series Native America, and is currently developing a series called Remaining Human: Exploring AI through an Indigenous and Cybernetics Lens.

Rebecca Tsosie (Yaqui) is a Regents Professor and Morris K. Udall Professor of Law at the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona. She is recognized nationally and internationally for her work in the fields of Federal Indian law and Indigenous peoples’ human rights. She serves as an appellate judge for the Supreme Court of the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, and received her bachelor of arts and juris doctor degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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