Indigenous knowledge meets artificial intelligence

Suzanne Kite's AI art installations, for example, model a Lakota framework of data sovereignty: intelligence that emerges only through reciprocal, consensual interaction. Unlike systems that assume user consent via opaque terms of service, her kinetic machines require the viewer's physical presence--and give something back in return. I know exactly what I did to train it. It's not a large model but a small and intimate one," Kite says. "I'm not particularly interested in making the most technologically advanced anything.