This Māori leader trained AI to speak his language and preserve its wisdom

About half of the world’s 7,000 languages are under threat - and especially Indigenous languages, which are disappearing at a rate of one a fortnight. Māori media company Te Hiku has taken a 21st-century approach to stopping the slide. CEO Peter-Lucas Jones explains how it built an AI model to help transcribe 30 years of Māori-language archival recordings, in which Indigenous elders passed down their invaluable knowledge and customs.