Extraction with Better Branding: Who Controls Indigenous Data in AI?
Over the last few months, Aotearoa has started moving AI out of the demo phase and into ordinary systems. Wellington has a Public Service AI Framework, but it isn’t binding, and the wider regulatory posture is still deliberately light-touch. The government is now funding an AI Advisory Pilot to push uptake in business, while Health New Zealand has already endorsed an AI-powered wellbeing guide. At the same time, Te Kāhui Raraunga has been warning that agencies still need bias monitoring, algorithm transparency, public registers, and a way to shut systems down when they start reinforcing prejudice. In Waikato, researchers are pushing a different path, keeping Māori language technology inside Māori-led environments where authority over data…
Is it a Tech Problem, or a People Problem?
2026 has already opened with another high-profile cybersecurity incident in New Zealand’s health sector. ManageMyHealth, a platform used to handle sensitive health and personal information, has reported unauthorized access and is working through investigation and…
AI Won’t Replace Your Engineering Staff
In December 1903, the Wright brothers got a powered aircraft into the air for 12 seconds and 120 feet. Aviation wasn’t solved that day. It entered a proof of concept stage: people could leave the ground. Less than six years later, Louis Bleriot flew from Calais to…
What’s Responsible AI Use?
If your organization can’t show the sources, can’t measure error, and can’t assign accountability, then you don’t have “responsible AI”. You have risk in a new wrapper. This isn’t a new problem created by AI. This problem is repeated any time there’s a new technology be…
We’re Paying it Forward
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