The Great AI Unraveling, Part 2: Tiokasin Ghosthorse & Pooja Prema

About this episode

The episode explores the implications of AI on Indigenous knowledge and the deeper questions surrounding intelligence and cosmology.

This is the second gathering in SAND's ongoing series on AI and the human spirit — and it takes a deliberately different rhythm. Rather than asking "is AI safe?" or "will it take our jobs?", Tiokasin Ghosthorse and Pooja Prema invite us to slow down and ask the deeper questions: What cosmology is AI extending? What is intelligence, really? And what happens when the earth-based, organic, living intelligence of Indigenous and ancestral ways of knowing gets replaced by a synthetic one? A spacious, felt-sense conversation that asks us to remember what a living mind actually is. Timestamps 00:00 — Welcome & framing the deeper questions 00:04 — Opening body practice: tuning into felt sense before speaking 00:07 — Tiokasin: AI as the latest ship on the shore — colonization in a new form 00:17 — "There is no artificial intuition" — what technology cannot replace 00:18 — Pooja: the cosmology behind AI — colonial linearity vs. the curving motherboard of Earth 00:25 — AI as the latest savior narrative — and why that story keeps repeating 00:45 — Who owns the data? Who controls the intelligence? The politics of AI 01:05 — AI as therapist, AI replacing elders — the cost to young people…

People in this episode

Guests: Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Pooja Prema

Topics covered

• AI and the human spirit
• Indigenous knowledge
• cosmology
• intelligence
• colonization
• mental health

Keywords

• AI
• Indigenous
• intelligence
• cosmology
• mental health
• colonization
• living mind

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cheyenne River Lakota Nation

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