Fellows mentioned in this story: Kamuela Enos

From University of Hawai‘i News:

The University of Hawaiʻi is part of an international group of researchers and Indigenous practitioners that has been awarded a $23-million (Canadian and approximately $17-million U.S.) grant from Canada’s New Frontiers in Research Fund to work on improving artificial intelligence (AI) through Indigenous knowledge.

The project, “Abundant Intelligences: Expanding Artificial Intelligence through Indigenous Knowledge Systems,” is Indigenous-led and involves 37 co-investigators and collaborators from eight universities and 12 Indigenous community-based organizations from Canada, the United States and New Zealand.

The teams will coalesce in locally rooted “pods” to collaborate with Indigenous communities. In this way, each team will learn from, and alongside, Indigenous knowledge keepers to bring novel perspectives to transforming AI.

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