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Project Details: Abundant Intelligences - Indigenous Approaches to Artificial Intelligence, an international Indigenous -led research program seeks a Postdoctoral Fellow in Artificial Intelligence and Indigenous Knowledge for its research "pod" in Toronto, Canada. Abundant Intelligences conceptualizes, designs, develops, and deploys Artificial Intelligence based on Indigenous Knowledge Systems. . The Toronto pod is comprised of faculty from OCAD University and York University in close partnership with collaborating institutions.
The Toronto pod is guided by the powerful history and traditions of the Dish with One Spoon agreement that governs Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee protocols of collaboration in this region, aiming to develop a framework for AI research, education, and community benefit that embodies "Generous AI" - AI that is designed with intentionality for positive societal, cultural and economic impact and ethical considerations.
The Postdoctoral Fellow will join a research team whose thematic interests are focused on melding AI and Indigenous language learning through games design, building an Indigenous knowledge repository, the related the use of Indigenous AI to create, manage, reinterpret, "rematriate"/repatriate and recover archives and museum collections, experiential/spatial knowledge(s) and representation relevant to Dish with One Spoon territories and creative practices: including sound improvisation.
About our Team
Our team includes researchers from OCAD University and York University as well as independent community-based researchers. We embrace collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches to change-making. We share a strong focus on indigenization, equity, and environmental sustainability, AI research and development.
The Postdoctoral Fellow will have shared supervision by Dr. Sara Diamond, OCAD U and Dr. Maya Chacaby, York U, with integration with other pod members.
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