The right of indigenous communities to govern how their cultural knowledge is collected, stored, and reused in digital systems, including the right to refuse participation or set conditions on use.
So what? As LLM training increasingly incorporates cultural materials from underrepresented communities, indigenous data sovereignty frameworks offer a model for community-led stewardship that goes beyond individual intellectual property rights.
Example: An indigenous community may hold oral histories or traditional ecological knowledge in digital archives; data sovereignty principles would require that community to control whether, and under what terms, that material enters any AI training dataset.
So what? As LLM training increasingly incorporates cultural materials from underrepresented communities, indigenous data sovereignty frameworks offer a model for community-led stewardship that goes beyond individual intellectual property rights.
Example: An indigenous community may hold oral histories or traditional ecological knowledge in digital archives; data sovereignty principles would require that community to control whether, and under what terms, that material enters any AI training dataset.
