[Commlist] CFP: AI and Indigenous Data Sovereignty - Knowing, Engaging, and Learning in New Data Contexts

*AI and Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Knowing, Engaging, and Learning in 
New Data Contexts*
*Special Issue of **/Somatechnics:/ /Journal of Bodies – Technologies – 
Power/* <https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/soma>*//*
The rapid development of artificial intelligence applications such as 
ChatGPT has generated debate and discussion about knowledge practices 
in social, political, and institutional spaces. Although the development 
of new data systems raise important ethical and professional practice 
issues, these developments also take place in a digital context informed 
by older colonial knowledges and biases. This special issue focuses on 
AI (artificial intelligence) and Indigenous Data Sovereignty and 
the impact of new data systems on data decision-making in knowledge, 
engagement, and learning contexts. The special issue examines how 
knowledge, engagement, and learning practices must recognise the 
importance of Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property and 
sovereignty rights and the potential for new technologies to reinforce 
and/or disrupt existing
information inequalities. Landmark work on Indigenous Data Sovereignty 
has been completed by Lewis et al.’s /Making Kin with the 
Machines/(2018) and the Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence 
Working Group (2020) as well as the edited
collections /Indigenous //Data //Sovereignty: //Toward an agenda /(2016) 
and /Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Policy /(2021). We seek to build on 
this important research. New technologies such as AI 
prompt renewed considerations and examinations of the sustainability and 
importance of Indigenous Data Sovereignty.
The purpose of this special issue is to focus the recent debate and 
scholarship on artificial intelligence applications such as ChatGPT on 
questions of Indigenous Data Sovereignty. The information, 
decision-making, and language and data predictive practices of AI are 
not neutral and take place within value-laden systems and 
structures. Some important data justice considerations in relation to AI 
relate to which countries, institutions, and companies are leading the 
development of AI and are therefore setting the terms of data 
engagement. Data scraping reflects academic publishing’s already 
colonial and male citation bias, subject to what are referred to 
as confabulations. As such, how do these kinds of technologies and forms 
of data-gathering relate to Indigenous Data Sovereignty and the 
protection and support of Indigenous Knowledges?

We welcome contributions that include but are not limited to the following:
- Coloniality of AI and data systems
- Decolonisation of AI and data systems in relation to sovereignty
- Indigenous knowledges, ethics, and ethical relations in AI and data 
systems for sovereignty
- Ways of engaging with AI and data systems for justice and sovereignty
- Power relations of learning, cognitive imperialism, and how new AI and 
data systems shape learning and cultural protocols of knowing
- How AI and data systems reinforce and disrupt identities, discourse, 
sovereignties, and communities
- Ownership, data-veillance, and geopolitical considerations of AI and 
data systems
- Interrogations of the construction of ‘intelligence’ and relationality 
in new data systems

We welcome diverse contributions focusing on First Nations and 
Indigenous  communities across the globe.

Abstracts are due *December 1, 2023*. Please send abstracts and all 
queries to the three editors, Holly Randell-Moon 
((hrandell-moon /at/ csu.edu.au) <mailto:(hrandell-moon /at/ csu.edu.au)>), Jessica 
Russ-Smith ((Jessica.Russ-Smith /at/ acu.edu.au) 
<mailto:(Jessica.Russ-Smith /at/ acu.edu.au)%20\t%20_blank>), and Karaitiana Taiuru
((karaitiana /at/ taiuru.maori.nz) 
<mailto:(karaitiana /at/ taiuru.maori.nz)%20\t%20_blank>).

References:
Kukutai, T. & Taylor, J. (Eds.) (2016). /Indigenous Data 
Sovereignty: Toward an agenda/. Canberra: ANU E-Press.
Lewis, J. E., Arista, N., Pechawis, A. & Kite, S. (2018, July 
16). Making Kin with the Machines. /Journal of Design and Science/. 
https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/lewis-arista-pechawis-kite/release/1 
<https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/lewis-arista-pechawis-kite/release/1>
Lewis, J. E. (Ed.) (2020, January 30). /Indigenous Protocol and 
Artificial Intelligence Position Paper/. Honolulu, Hawai‘i: 
The Initiative for Indigenous Futures and the Canadian Institute for 
Advanced Research (CIFAR).
Walter, M., Kukutai, T., Russo Carroll, S. & Rodriguez-Lonebear, D. 
(2021). /Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Policy/. London: Routledge.


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