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Exploring Indigenous-AI: Relations Through the Lens of Activity

Submitted by rsayyed on March 7, 2024 - 2:33pm
Date: 
Friday, March 15, 2024 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Location: 

Mackinnon 019

Exploring Indigenous-AI: Relations Through the Lens of Activity
Body: 

Hear from our guest speaker on Indigenous cultural resurgence and how it is coinciding with generative AI emergence. 


Join Dr. Todd J.B. Blayone to explore the intersection of emerging digital technologies and Indigenous socio-cultural development. With focusing on the everyday uses of AI at home, school and work, Todd uncovers the opportunities this technology affords and its inherent contradictions. 


Guest Speaker

Dr. Todd J.B. Blayone
Dr. Todd J.B. Blayone

Dr. Todd J.B. Blayone is a cross-cultural technology researcher, a citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario and a resident of Ukraine. His transdisciplinary work over three decades in Canada and Eastern Europe spans ancient civilizations, digital humanities, IT competencies, activity theory and workplace digitalization. As an Indigenous Research Fellow at the University of Guelph, Canada, his current project addresses Indigenous socio-cultural resurgence in an era of AI.

 

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