Dane Malenfant: Embedding the Indigenous Value of Reciprocity into AI Systems

In this episode, Ally speaks with Dane Malenfant, a Metis citizen pursuing a Masters in Computer science at Mila and McGill University. They discuss Dane's work at the intersection of AI and psychology and what it looks like to embed indigenous values into AI systems.

Other points of discussion include:

👆 The culture shock of Western values at McGill University

✌ Why a 1992 algorithm works better than modern AI models at integrating indigenous value sets

🖖 How principles from psychology and neuroscience are influencing AI architecture and how AI architecture influences our understanding of psychology and neuroscience

Links:

- Publication: Causality Mining in Fiction

- Publication: Contrastive Retrospection

- Linc Lab