What a great question and one that's very close to my heart. In terms of the indigenous communities, the first principle that we really need to take to heart is we don't want a recolonization to happen. Whatever we do with AI, we cannot embark on an extractive approach.
I'll give you an example. Even when we're putting grants together, we often want to be engaging with indigenous communities. It's not sufficient anymore to just have a throwaway line in a grant application that says that we are going to consult with indigenous peoples. That ticking of a box just doesn't cut it anymore; we need to go way beyond that. I'm proud to say I'm living this now with Connected Minds. We have an indigenous advisory circle where anything indigenous has to go by this circle. It's an inclusive approach where they are involved in actually setting the question as opposed to projecting what we mean to study on them.
I'm really grateful for Connected Minds and the impact that we're making based on this funding, so that we now have many projects that have come to the fore, in a sense, with their own pain points. We talk about indigenous data, cultures and knowledge, which merit a special understanding and treatment that goes beyond the conventional ways that we've been used to.