Abundant Intelligences: Placing AI within Indigenous Knowledge Frameworks

Authors: Jason Edward Lewis, Hēmi Whaanga, and Ceyda Yolgörmez

Abundant Intelligences: Placing AI within Indigenous Knowledge Framework" presents a groundbreaking international research program that reimagines how to conceptualize and design artificial intelligence based on Indigenous knowledge systems. Published in the peer-reviewed journal AI & Society in October 2024, this academic paper by Jason Edward Lewis (Concordia University), Hēmi Whaanga (Massey University, Aotearoa), and Ceyda Yolgörmez (Concordia University) argues that current AI development suffers from fundamental epistemological shortcomings that result in systematic bias against non-white, non-male, and non-Western peoples. Rather than simply critiquing AI or refusing to engage with it, the authors propose rebuilding AI's epistemological foundations entirely using Indigenous knowledge systems to transform these tools from engines of colonial extraction into engines of abundance.