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Our CEO Peter-Lucas Jones on the aspirations for the tools we’ve developed and the importance of Te Wiki o te reo Māori https://lnkd.in/gK-35Dhj

#ICYMI - Peter-Lucas Jones had a wonderful kōrero with Jenny-May Clarkson on the Breakfast show this morning after an amazing night at TIME100 Most Influential in AI dinner. https://lnkd.in/gTRSmqSg

NBR’s Back in Business podcast, now available FREE wherever you get your podcasts. In this episode, Simon Shepherd finds out Te Reo Māori's digital future. Will the advent of AI mean the most digitised iwi will become the dominant story? Spotify - https://lnkd.in/gKFTVxrQ Apple - https://lnkd.in/ggswNRQs #aotearoa #business #nz #newzealand #journalism #māori #māorilanguage #tewikiotereomāori #AI #technology #language Peter-Lucas Jones Te Hiku Media Dr Karaitiana Taiuru JP, MInstD

A great piece by Newsroom NZ - Te Hiku Media has been talking about data sovereignty for decades (when you come from WAI262 country it's part of your whakapapa) but it was in 2014 that we built our own 'Whare Kōrero' platform to protect our data & moved away from YouTube & Facebook for sharing kōrero. While we do all we can, at great cost, regulation in Aotearoa has lagged. https://lnkd.in/g9Ss6XHK

It has been wonderful working alongside the teams at RNZ and Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision to get to this point. As our CEO Peter-Lucas Jones says in the release, "spending time building trust and understanding in our relationship and demonstrating our commitment to quality te reo Māori outcomes and data sovereignty.” was/is integral to everything we do when embarking on new collaborations and partnerships.

"In doing so we are able to raise to the attention how indigenous communities like the one that I come from, don't only want to be the users of technology, we want to be the developers of it too. And that way we're not only just creating tools that serve one purpose." https://lnkd.in/g4tiAZAp

“This is not just a celebration of Te Hiku Media and our town, but our whole community and the support we’ve been afforded by our community to do our work” https://lnkd.in/gp8-8gyk Te Hiku Media CEO Peter-Lucas Jones on Time Magazine’s TIME100 AI list

KUA WHAKAINGOATIA KO PETER-LUCAS JONES KI TE RĀRANGI INGOA Ā-TAU O TIME100 AI Kaitaia, New Zealand Aotearoa, Rāmere @0030 NZST Kua whakaingoatia a Peter-Lucas Jones ki te rārangi 2024 TIME100 AI. E tohu ana tēnei rārangi i te 100 tāngata e kōkiri ana i ngā kaupapa kōrero mō AI, me te aro, te huri rānei a te ao ki a 'AI'. He rangatira, he tāngata waihanga kaupapa here, he ringa toi, he kaipākihi o ngā umanga maha nō ngā tōpito o te ao, kua whakaingoatia ki tēnei rārangi. Mō te roanga atu o te rārangi: time.com/time100ai Mō ngā ui pāpāho whakapā mai ki a: ai@tehiku.co.nz #TIME100AI ********************************************** TIME has named Peter-Lucas Jones to the 2024 TIME100 AI list, highlighting 100 individuals advancing major conversations about how AI is reshaping the world. The list features leaders, policymakers, artists, and entrepreneurs across a variety of fields and from countries around the world. See the full list here: time.com/time100ai Media enquiries contact: ai@tehiku.co.nz #TIME100AI https://tehiku.nz/a.MtO

“More than 50% of the world’s languages will become extinct or seriously endangered by 2100. The extinction of a language results in the irrecoverable loss of unique cultural, historical, and ecological knowledge.” A month ago, I was captivated by Michael Running Wolf’s presentation ‘Generational Data Sovereignty for Indigenous Communities’. He spoke during O'Reilly’s Gen Ai Superstream and his statements were so impactful. A few that stuck with me the most:  - “Data is the next frontier to be colonised.“  - “Indigenous community scientists PhDs only make up 0.1% of all computer scientists PhDs in North America.”  - “Let’s build bridges and not walls - by providing access to this data and helping young people grow and gain access to tools”  - An example he provided, regarding the Maori language being saved by coauthoring data, by the company Te Hiku Media If you know me, you know I love the intricacies of language and how we as people interact and morph our cultural understandings of language over time. My curiosity has also led me down a path to discovering how different types of AI will intersect with language and cultural aspects. So if you’re as curious as me, start a discussion below and learn more about the work Michael’s doing at http://firstlanguages.ai. Help to support the preservation of Indigenous languages and the work they're doing to build AI tools based on those languages. Thanks to CSIRO's Data61 for providing access to O’reilly and shoutout to Exco Partners for providing me with that contract opportunity. First quote is quoted from https://lnkd.in/gNcmana8

This may be surprising coming from the president of a foundation focused on technology and society: Technology isn’t always the answer. We can’t and shouldn't expect to code ourselves out of every challenge. Techno-optimist or pessimist, the notion of tech primacy has become damagingly central to our culture. This week I published an op-ed in ImpactAlpha, taking a stand as a techno-pragmatist. I advocate for a world where we prioritize asking better questions and focus on the needs of our communities rather than the potential of unknown technologies.  It's a world that will require bringing together a new ecosystem of players, ones that are clear-eyed about realistic outcomes and mindful of unintended negative consequences.  And it's a world where philanthropy and other mission-oriented capital have a crucial role to play in widening the lens of who gets to create technology, what problems get attention and funding, who has access to new technologies, and who benefits from them. I hope you will check it out! https://lnkd.in/e4MMi9A6 Mentioned: Code the Dream Te Hiku Media Mozilla #BlackTechFutures Research Institute Center on Rural Innovation Fast Forward Robin Hood Ford Foundation The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation Omidyar Network ex/ante Slauson & Co. Chloe Capital Visible Hands Lucid Capitalism Responsible Innovation Labs Worthmore