Tomorrow! Come listen to two of the foremost voices in the realm of Indigenous AI. Kānaka Hawaiʻi have a long and fraught relationship with outside technologies. Sometimes it has been detrimental, and sometimes, like with print literacy and the newspapers, we used it to great effect for our own liberatory purposes. Where might AI fit on this spectrum? Come listen to Michelle Lee Brown and Keolu Fox, two of the foremost voices in Indigenous AI, discuss the problems and possibilities of AI for Indigenous communities. Sponsored by KCHS and HIFI, which is funded by Abundant Intelligences through the New Frontiers of Research Fund and Social Science and Humanities Research Council.

Also join us for a small hands-on workshop “Guerrilla Computing and Future Imaginaries of Indigenous AI” on Saturday, Nov 1, from 9am-2pm with Michelle and Keolu at the Create(x) Lab at UH West Oʻahu. You will really get an opportunity to dig into your ideas or questions about AI and how it might benefit our communities. Spaces are limited and lunch will be provided. Click the link here to sign up: https://forms.gle/KCpdg7GY3zyNaiuj6

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The Hawaiian and Indigenous Future Imaginaries (HIFI) Lab is a small, research- and community-based organization dedicated to supporting the Hawaiian community in developing and articulating its own future imaginaries. This work is essential to cultivating futures of our own design—abundant, self-determined, and grounded in Hawaiian knowledge systems—rather than remaining subject to the futures imagined for us by others.

 

HIFI recognizes imagination as a vital tool in this process. To strengthen it, HIFI fosters pilina among Kānaka Hawai‘i and with other Indigenous artists and knowledge holders from across the Pacific and Native North America. Through these relationships, HIFI engages in collaborative acts of imagining and constructing diverse and expansive Indigenous futures.

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HIFI serves as a site of creative inquiry and cultural practice where ‘ai pōhaku re-envision relationships among ‘āina, kānaka, science, technology, mo‘olelo, and mele. HIFI's work is guided by an abundance-centered framework rooted in Kanaka epistemologies and values.