Artificial Intelligence

Features

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  Right Relations: Finding Deep Relationality in an Age of Artificial Intelligence

  Daniel Wildcat

  From staggering energy consumption to the selfish goals of bad actors, we would be wise to proceed slowly in adopting and utilizing AI and its applications.

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  Opportunity and Risk: Artificial Intelligence and Indian Country

  Sean Dudley and Al Kuslikis

  AI has brought dramatic advancements but also challenges, biases, and unforeseen problems. TCUs must help lead the effort to make the technology work for the benefit of Native nations.

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  Hayoołkááł (a New Dawn): Diné College Students Envision AI Through a Lens of Diné Epistemologies

  Brie Jontry

  How can Sa’ah Naaghái Bik’eh Hózhóón, the foundational Diné lifeway principles, inform the adoption and utilization of artificial intelligence? Four students offer their perspectives.

Editor's Essay

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  The Known Unknown

  Bradley Shreve

  With repeated failures to institute safety measures and guardrails in the development of AI, Native nations’ sovereignty and self-determination are more important than ever.

Current Reflections

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  Stephen Wall on AI

  Bradley Shreve

  TCU professor, author, and former chief judge of the Mescalero Apache Tribe discusses potential benefits and dangers of artificial intelligence. Play Audio

Voices

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  No, My Girl, You Tell the Story about Artificial Intelligence

  Bezhigobinesikwe Elaine Fleming

  For all its remarkable developments and advancements, AI is simply a tool, a machine lacking emotion and humanity. We must not allow it to tell our stories and determine our future.

Talking Circle

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  Questions about ChatGPT? Time to Get Up-to-Speed

  Randy Perkins

  This overview from a TCU professor offers insights, recommendations, and cautionary advice on ChatGPT and how to cope with this revolutionary technology.

TCJ Student

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  Next

  Xavier Wakinyan Jones

  “It had been a while since I spoke about my depression, about my suicide attempts. I gestured to the open, limitless, space around us and I think it understood what I meant.”

Dear Readers

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  Wrestling With Artificial Intelligence

  Christopher Caldwell

  The College of Menominee Nation president and TCJ advisory board member discusses how TCUs must wrestle with the challenges of AI and find their own solutions.