Indigenous Communities Use AI To Repatriate Heritage

Researchers collaborating with Wororra Traditional Owners in the Kimberley used Anthropic's Claude to process and interpret decades of archived recordings, notebooks and photographs, accelerating transcription, handwriting deciphering, genealogy cross-referencing and PDF organization. By restricting the model to curated, community-approved sources they developed a closed-system approach that preserves cultural protocols and aims to return heritage through conversational, community-governed tools.