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人工智能

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发展

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尊重

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原住民

Artificial intelligence can help people analyze large amounts of information and can also detect forest clearing, illegal mining, and environmental changes.

However, its development can also bring problems.

Large data centers require a lot of water, electricity, and land. Manufacturing equipment also requires mining minerals, which may harm the natural environment and Indigenous peoples' homelands.

Artificial intelligence can also collect languages, cultures, and traditional knowledge.

This knowledge often belongs to the whole community rather than to one individual, so it cannot be used freely without consent.

When making related policies, governments and companies should allow Indigenous peoples to truly take part in decisions and should protect their lands, cultures, and data.

Technology can be combined with local experience to help predict droughts, protect migration routes, or monitor changes in sea ice, but it cannot replace knowledge accumulated over generations.

Only when communities decide what they need and give their clear, voluntary consent before use can artificial intelligence serve people and nature more fairly.