Indigigenius

Indigenous in AI/ML's vision is to build an international community of Native, Aboriginal, and First Nations who will collectively transform their home communities with advanced technology. By elevating the voices of Indigenous ML researchers we will inspire future impactful work and break stereotypes. Additionally, this group will strive to educate the broader NeurIPS on contemporary indigenous issues relevant to information technology and practices.

Teach the Teacher Professional Development (T3PD) offers AI Education to Indigenous communities, who have historically been underserved, by recruiting, training, and supporting future instructors to implement an AI Code Camp in their home community.

The FLAIR initiative serves Indigenous communities in their efforts to revitalize their language and culture through technology. We are building the foundations for Indigenous Voice AI in systems explicitly designed to respect data sovereignty and linguistic self-determination. Our foundational automatic speech recognition (ASR) research aims to develop a method for the rapid creation of custom models for endangered languages. These models can be used for language learning, audio transcription, voice-controlled technology and much more. We envision a world in which Indigenous communities have full self-determination and sovereignty over their language and culture. We imagine technology serving the revitalization and thriving of languages as a tool to connect community members, to celebrate their identity, and to transmit their culture and knowledge on the community's own terms.