This Thinking Life: Indigeneity and AI webinar
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The College of Humanities and Social Sciences – Te Kura Pūkenga Tangata at Massey University offers teaching and research in a wide range of disciplines. The College fosters deep connections across Massey and beyond to forge innovative, relevant and valued ideas, research and teaching.
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Join Professor Hēmi Whaanga online to explore how contemporary AI is not simply biased or misused, but built on Western conceptual foundations that systematically exclude Indigenous ways of knowing, in the first webinar of the This Thinking Life series.
Professor Hēmi Whaanga (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Mamoe, Waitaha) is Professor and Head of School in Te Pūtahi‑a‑Toi at Massey and a leading scholar in Māori and Indigenous knowledge systems, linguistics and digital technologies.
About This Thinking Life webinar series:
The Thinking Life: Ideas That Shape Us is a free online seminar series brought to you by Massey University's College of Humanities and Social Sciences, running from 17 June to 9 July.
For more information, please contact the organiser: e.tilley@massey.ac.nz.
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