Suzanne Kite’s AI art installations, for example, model a Lakota framework of data sovereignty: intelligence that emerges only through reciprocal, consensual interaction. These artists ask a more radical question: What if intelligence couldn’t be gathered until a relationship had been established? Suzanne KiteWičhíŋčala Šakówiŋ (Seven Little Girls)2023For Kite, the fundamental flaw of Western technology is its severance of knowledge from the body. Below her, stones arranged in patterns reflecting Lakota star maps anchor the performance in traditional astronomical knowledge. COURTESY OF THE ARTISTÍnyan Iyé (Telling Rock)2019This installation uses embedded AI to speak and respond to viewers, upending assumptions about intelligence and agency.