Old Ways, New

CULTURE

RESEARCH

STRATEGY

TECHNOLOGY

Remembering the past to create a future where Indigenous knowledge systems shape Artificial Intelligence

How do millennia of engineering practices, ancient technological designs, and diverse Indigenous knowledge systems help shape AI?

Through our relationship with it, future dreamings, and foundational mechanics.

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Ensuring the safe, responsible, and ethical development, deployment, and use of artificial intelligence is critical to mitigate risks and promote trust. Indigenous protocols for AI embed cultural ethics, values, and rules into Machine Learning, providing assurance within AI systems.

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The strategic design process created for spaces, services, experiences, sites, and the resulting technological outputs.

Our research explores the complexity and sophistication of Indigenous knowledge systems, and their capacity to inform new technologies through a connection with Country and kin.

We adopt Indigenous pedagogies in the way we share our knowledge. Our two-way learning workshops are group-oriented, context-specific, and purpose-aligned.

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Our creative projects incorporate video and film works and are practice-based research.  Indigenous Protocols for AI provides this research foundation, enabling technology as cultural practice through transdisciplinary formats.


Our creative projects incorporate video and film works and are practice-based research.  Indigenous Protocols for AI provides this research foundation, enabling technology as cultural practice through transdisciplinary formats.


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Angie Abdilla
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We are an Indigenous-owned business offering learning workshops, engaged in research, and leading the creation of cultural projects. We consider how Indigenous knowledge enables new possibilities in the application of AI systems and Machine Learning.

Old Ways, New is committed to the governance practices and design process for Automation and AI. We do this through culture, research, and strategy. Why? To support the next generation of Indigenous technologists and for the restoration, revitalisation, health, and wellbeing of Country and its communities.