Artificial Intelligence - In Service of Life?

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Artificial Intelligence – In Service of Life?

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Nate Hagens Frankly

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What if the most powerful tool humanity has ever created could either help heal the Earth — or accelerate its unraveling?

In this special Earth Week edition of Frankly, Nate delves into what it truly means for a technology or project to be “in service of Life,” using the rapidly evolving landscape of Artificial Intelligence as an example. Like any other tool that humanity has created, AI has the potential to either mitigate humanity’s impact on our planetary home or deepen the ecological crises we face. Nate speculates on the key metrics that might guide AI and other technologies toward goals that support the abundance and vibrancy of all complex life on Earth.

In an age overflowing with information, could rethinking our relationships and incentive structures offer a clearer path forward? How can we identify goals that are not in service of Life? Finally, how could a shift in social and cultural values play the most critical part in transforming our human system to be aligned with the rest of the biosphere?

In French, we have a motto that says that a simple drawing is often better than a long explanation. Jean-Marc Jancovici Carbone 4 President

That’s very understandable because with left atmosphere thinking, one of the problems is that you see everything as a series of problems that must have solutions. Iain McGilchrist Neuroscientist and Philosopher

We can’t have hundreds and hundreds of real relationships that are healthy because that requires time and effort and full attention and awareness of being in real relationship and conversation with the other human. Nate Hagens Director of ISEOF

This is the crux of the whole problem. Individual parts of nature are more valuable than the biocomplexity of nature. Thomas Crowther Founder Restor

Show Notes & Links to Learn More

00:10 – Earth Day

00:44 – Artificial Intelligence

01:29 – Nora Bateson TGS Episode

01:33 – Gregory Bateson

01:35 – Rex Weyler TGS Episode

03:07 – Ecological Overshoot, Financial Overshoot

04:40 – Regenerative Agriculture

05:18 – Rebound Effect, Backfire Effect

07:21 – Fascism

07:22 – Colonizing Mars

07:24 – Buddhism

08:22 – Zero-sum Game

08:33 – Just in Time Delivery

08:42 – Six-Continent Supply Chain

08:44 – Polarization

08:53 – Wet Bulb Temperature

09:55 – Species of Bacteria

10:05 – Three Trillion Trees on Earth

10:09 – Tom Crowther

10:12 – Biocomplexity

10:18 – 73,000 Tree Species 

10:20 – 1 Million Known Insect Species

10:30 – 400,000 Species of Beetles 

10:34 – 180,000 Species of Butterflies and Moths

10:43 – 33,000 Species of Fish

10:47 – 11,000 Species of Birds

10:57 – Earthwatch

11:03 – 250 Species of Hummingbirds in Ecuador

11:07 – 11,000 Species of Reptiles

11:10 – 8,000 Species of Amphibians

11:16 – 6,400 Species of Mammals

11:26 – 500 Species of Primates

11:32 – 25 Species of Apes

11:35 – 8 Species of Great Apes

11:45 – 9 Hominid Species

11:53 – Mass Extinction

12:01 – All Time High of Biodiversity Complexity

12:55 – TGS Podcasts  

12:56 – TGS Franklys  

12:58 – Earth Day 2024, Earth Day 2023, Earth Day 2022, Earth Day 2021  

13:18 – Anthropocentric

13:40 – Reductionist

13:48 – Symbiosis

14:36 – College Textbooks (The Bottlenecks of the 21st Century, Reality Blind Vol 1, Reality Blind Vol 2) 

14:37 – DJ White TGS Episode

15:01 – Mahamudra Meditation

16:14 – Most Climate Models Stop at Year 2099

16:30 – PETM (Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

17:24 – James Hansen

17:25 – James Hansen (and Pushker Kharecha’s) Paper

17:31 – At 3 Degrees C Half of Earth Species are Lost

18:09 – Oceans Comprise 70% of Living Habitat on Earth

18:46 – Exoplanetary

18:58 – Immortal Robot Bodies

19:05 – Singularity Philosophy (Singularitarianism)

19:31 – Species Extinction

19:37 – Dire Wolves

19:54 – Extinction Rate

20:13 – Jurassic Park

20:18 – Uploadable Brain (Mind Uploading)

20:30 – Existential Global Threats

20:35 – Nuclear Weapons

20:49 – Malaria

21:11 – Malaria as Ecological Defense, Slashing and Burning

23:11 – Wind Farms, Solar Energy, Eco Homes (Ecohouse), Recycling

23:22 – ESG Initiative (Environmental, Social Governance) 

23:23 – United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

23:25 – Greenpeace, The Sierra Club, The Nature Conservancy

24:42 – Elephants Responding to Their Individual Names

25:09 – Deep Time (Peter Brannen: “Deep Time, Mass Extinctions, and Today” TGS Episode)

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