Danielle Boyer🤖

Meet the SkoBot, a language revitalization robot (a thread)

I invented a robot that helps preserve my endangered Indigenous language Anishinaabemowin

Me lately

Come hear me speak!

Huge thanks to Professors Clement Gorin (Pantheon-Sorbonne) & Stephan Heblich (U of T) and the Acrylic Robotics team for helping preserve Norval Morrisseau’s legacy through AI & robotics. Own a piece of this historic collaboration: tinyurl.com/35zh6kbc

I post regularly on 🧵 now btw for people who want to join me there!

Are you calling and emailing your House Reps? Because many Tribal Colleges will cease to exist with the cuts in the “Big Beautiful Bill.” Tribal colleges are one of the few places where our Native languages are taught! It also cuts funding that supports tribal museums.

@Blacknatwatch I know an AI rage bait account isn’t telling a youth talking about my experience with racism that I am not native. I am native, I am Anishinaabe. I am enrolled, not like that matters. I am biracial

@danielleboyerr You're not native though. Your ancestors killed all the natives off in a Colonial genocide.

Whenever I post abt things I’m excited abt I get replies like this. Or I wish the French had finished you all off. Or I hope you go missing. Or you’re a drunk! People target Natives with racist comments constantly and it’s repulsive

@chakenbake @InsideNatGeo Miigwech! ❤️🥰

@danielleboyerr @InsideNatGeo I love this!!!!! So well deserved, excited to see you excel even further in this opportunity!

Ahhhh! I’m so thrilled to work alongside other young leaders as an @InsideNatGeo Young Explorer! We’re tackling challenges, seeking solutions, and working together for a better future. This honor will help me further my work developing my SkoBots. Miigwech. #NatGeoExplorer

@LanaAlabbasi @InsideNatGeo Congratulations to you as well! You are doing so many amazing things it’s an honor to be an explorer alongside you!

@danielleboyerr @InsideNatGeo Congratulations Danielle! Looking forward to seeing you soon!

Big news! Delighted to have been selected as a @NatGeo Young Explorer, one of only 15 chosen globally this year! Becoming the 2nd Saudi to join @InsideNatGeo since its founding 137 years ago, and one of the firsts selected under their “Space” focus area 🔭 #NatGeoExplorer

People have been using my work to justify generative AI at events & press that I have not commented on or consented to recently. AI requires much nuance, but generative AI tools that are trained on stolen data and have no regard for cultural accuracies will never be the way

@ZeldaLazar No. Wrong. Blocked

@danielleboyerr Trans women are men with a fetish for wearing women's underwear. This isn't disinformation. It's a fact

On this trans day of visibility let us be reminded that trans people have existed since before colonization and are still here. Being trans isn’t a new concept, and you’re on Indigenous land

@ZeldaLazar My post is about trans people and you’re talking about underwear and saying men wear women’s panties. It’s weird, it has no correlation to what I said, get off my page

@danielleboyerr What did I say that was misinformation?

@mishiikenhkwe I meant for my org! We are a youth led org working on language revitalization education & stem curriculum 🥰

@danielleboyerr Sometimes! Mostly for companies and orgs, I’ve never done a personal digital commission but I’d be open to it.

@ZeldaLazar Anti trans misinformation and bigotry will get you nowhere on my page

@danielleboyerr Yes, there have always been men who get off on wearing women's underwear

@Namaste22757632 @BuenSabor AI is just a tool, but one that must be handled with care. Who makes this software matters, and how we train these LLMs matter

@BuenSabor @danielleboyerr I do not feel too strongly on it but find AI is just a tool, it’s what you feed it and how you review it that matters. I don’t think it’s a “liar” it’s an algorithm at best … but I respect 🫡 the sentiment and I appreciate genuine stories. You got one?

Recently, non-Navajo people made an Al generated art series about a Diné girl who loves STEM. This really disappoints me because there are so many talented Diné artists to hire but they instead chose to use Al. Also, Diné stories should be told by Diné

@JerryTurin How? If you can’t afford to leave, how do you do it? If these places won’t hire Indigenous people, how do you sustain yourself? There’s hundreds of thousands of people living in these circumstances

@danielleboyerr Go to where the jobs are and where the water is.

While Arizona is working to create more data centers to power Al and improve power infrastructure, they denied Navajo Nation support while many live without power