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SUMMARY:“Stop Generating”: Generative AI in the Contexts of Indigenous Studies
DESCRIPTION:\n\nGenerative AI has forced universities to contend with 
 complex ethical and social questions—namely because writing is so deeply 
 entrenched as an institutional gatekeeping. For many students\, 
 particularly those from marginalized backgrounds or for whom English is not 
 a first language\, the pressure to translate ideas into “proper” 
 English contributes to attrition rates and exacerbates feelings of 
 inadequacy\, alienation\, and exclusion from many academic 
 communities.\n\nFrom an equity and inclusion perspective\, AI has the 
 potential to disrupt institutional barriers by offering accessible tools 
 that level the grammatical playing field. By functioning as virtual tutors 
 or co-writers\, AI systems can assist students in producing more polished 
 and coherent prose\, thus challenging the traditional hierarchies that 
 privilege certain grammatical and stylistic norms. Instead of attempting to 
 ban these tools (which is\, to say the least\, impractical)\, I side with a 
 growing number of technology scholars who argue that we should focus on 
 teaching students how to use generative AI responsibly and effectively. 
 However\, I do so with the caveat that teaching responsible AI use means 
 critically engaging the complex and often messy processes that make AI what 
 it is.\n\nIn this presentation\, I draw from Indigenous theorists and 
 authors to situate generative AI and large language models (LLMs) within a 
 long colonial history of extraction. Just as colonial states declare 
 Indigenous lands terra nullius\, allowing settlers to exploit resources 
 through mining\, clear-cutting\, and other forms of extraction\, generative 
 AI similarly depends on the unchecked extraction of data\, including 
 Indigenous knowledge and cultural resources\, often without consent. The 
 late Gregory Younging refers to this process as gnaritas nullius\, the 
 colonial rendering of Indigenous knowledge into public property. The 
 unchecked extraction of writing\, including\, but not limited to\, 
 Indigenous knowledge\, represents a new frontier for colonial capitalism\, 
 where cultural and intellectual property are commodified by those with the 
 most access and power. As Nando de Freitas notes\, the future of AI 
 development depends on scale: those who control the largest datasets will 
 have the greatest advantage and profit the most from AI. The numerous 
 high-profile copyright cases against companies like OpenAI and Meta show 
 that how this data is collected is treated as a secondary issue. This 
 unbridled\, dehumanizing race for data mirrors the extractive practices 
 that have driven capitalist-colonial expansion for centuries. Building on 
 these ideas\, I mobilize the insights of Indigenous authors like Younging\, 
 Scott Lyons\, and Cherie Dimaline to highlight strategies for resisting 
 colonial extraction and challenging capitalist systems through rhetorical 
 sovereignty and the concept of incommensurability. The goal is not to 
 discourage the use of generative AI but\, in the Faustian sense\, to reveal 
 the costs of embracing it\, especially when it is employed to subvert 
 oppressive institutional structures.\n\nSpeaker\n\nDavid Gaertner\, 
 Assoicate Professor\, Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies\n\nDavid 
 Gaertner is an assistant professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous 
 Studies and the co-Director of the CEDaR space: a community-centered new 
 media and immersive storytelling lab. He writes\, researches\, and teaches 
 new media\, critical Indigenous studies\; Indigenous literatures\; 
 contemporary Canadian literature\, cultural theories of reconciliation\, 
 and speculative fiction. He has published articles in Canadian Literature\, 
 American Indian Research and Culture\, and Digital Pedagogies in the 
 Humanities\, amongst others. He is the author of The Theatre of Regret: 
 Literature\, Art and the Politics of Reconciliation in Canada (UBC Press) 
 and editor of Soykeyihta: The Poetry of Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe 
 (WLUP).\n\nLocation Details\n.dl-horizontal{background-color: 
 #E2E9F5\;}\n\n\n	Location:\n	*ONLINE* Registrants will be sent the Zoom 
 link in a registration confirmation email.\n\n\nAdditional 
 Information\n\nAll event times are listed in Pacific Standard Time 
 (PST).\n\nIf you have any questions\, concerns\, or accessibility needs 
 please email scholarly.communications@ubc.ca.\n\nTo keep up-to-date with 
 all of the workshops\, consults\, and events\, subscribe to the Open UBC 
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