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Danielle Boyer @danielleboyer.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

While Arizona is working to create more data centers to power Al and improve power infrastructure, they denied Navajo Nation support while many live without power

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Danielle Boyer @danielleboyer.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Does Al harm the environment? Not all of it, no. While large Al models (like DeepSeek or ChatGPT) do require significant resources and centralized infrastructure, many Al models are lightweight enough to run on less powerful hardware. Not all Al is generative Al.

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Danielle Boyer @danielleboyer.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

OpenAl (who made ChatGPT) said that you can't train Al models without using copyrighted materials. What does this mean for artists, for creatives, for protected cultural information, and so many others when companies steal our data without our consent

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Danielle Boyer @danielleboyer.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Recently, non-Navajo people made an Al generated art series about a Diné girl who loves STEM. This really disappoints me because there are so many talented Diné artists to hire but they instead chose to use Al. Also, Diné stories should be told by Diné

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Aree Worawongwasu 🇵🇸 @areeworawongwasu.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

"Tribal sovereignty should be at the core of work with Indigenous languages." So excited to listen to inventor @danielleboyer.bsky.social speak at #LT4All #LanguageTechnologiesForAll, speaking truth to power about Indigenous language revitalization technology! ✊🏽🔥 Miigwech, Danielle!

Ojibwe inventor Danielle Boyer speaking at the UNESCO Language Technologies for All conference at a podium with a laptop and her invention the Skobot (a personalized, wearable, and interactive Indigenous language revitalization robot that senses motion and speaks).

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Danielle Boyer @danielleboyer.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Duolingo is in the news right now for their funny social media account, but behind the scenes are translator layoffs in favor of AI. How involved should AI be in language learning? Especially when these languages include Indigenous ones? Duolingo has ChatGPT integrations and utilizes AI

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Danielle Boyer @danielleboyer.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I am pro gatekeeping for Indigenous communities. It means keeping sacred information, like our traditions, ceremonies, and stories, protected from people who mean to use it in ways we don’t consent to. We can fight for our rights and have a voice without giving up sacred information to just anyone

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Danielle Boyer @danielleboyer.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Hot take, but pressuring a company to support diversity & inclusion when they don’t want to is going to yield bad results. Like Target bringing in Black-owned brands and then doing nothing to support or promote those brands and removing them when they don’t perform well (1/2)

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Diversity is a fact: All kinds of people exist. Equity is a goal: All kinds of people deserve a chance at success. Inclusion is how we get to equity. By including them, they can achieve success. It's that simple.

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I wrote about Google unveiling its 'responsible AI progress report' by quietly deleting the part of its AI principles where it promised not to work on weapons www.platformer.news/google-ai-pr...

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Google is ready to work on AI weapons now

The company’s promise to avoid building AI applications that cause harm has been deleted

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Danielle Boyer @danielleboyer.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

It’s crazy that ChatGPT is capable of inventing new words that don’t exist in my endangered Indigenous language Anishinaabemowin. Indigenous languages must be handled with accuracy and care, and not be used to train tools like this from data scraping on the web. I wonder where DeepSeek will take us…

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Danielle Boyer @danielleboyer.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

It’s baffling that non Indigenous people think they know what is best for the preservation of Indigenous languages. Even if you disagree with our methods, we have a right to choose what to do with our own languages. And we probably (definitely) have more context than you

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I’m sad to learn that my law school classmate, Kiah Duggins, died in the DC plane crash last night. Kiah was an exceptionally talented civil rights lawyer and aspiring legal scholar. I hope you’ll read about her work and the causes she cared about, some of which I’ll 🧵 below. What an immense loss

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Danielle Boyer @danielleboyer.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Me rn: i just accomplished something I never thought I would. I pitched at Stanford this weekend and secured funding for my STEM educational app for Indigenous girls

A photo of the poster, Danielle Boyer, wearing a blue beanie and Indigenous beadwork, in front of the beach

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Danielle Boyer @danielleboyer.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

the inventor vs the invention. a language revitalization robot that speaks my Indigenous language Anishinaabemowin

Robotics inventor Danielle Boyer holding a red robot wearing a hat that speaks her engendered Indigenous language Anishinaabemowin

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Danielle Boyer @danielleboyer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Boozhoo (hello)! I’m new to Bluesky. I’m an Indigenous (Anishinaabe) youth robotics designer who makes language revitalization robots called SkoBots and makes technical education free for Indigenous youths

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