Earth Species Project

How can we actually plan from a full circle of life the use of water for these data centers such that ultimately we're not affecting the use of water that was there before the construction of the data centers? So as Kerik says, we can use AI to solve the very issues that we're concerned about.

Furthermore, I would like to highlight a particular initiative that I happen to be on the board of, which is the Earth Species Project, which is using AI to understand animal communication and to understand culture.

how they communicate with each other, intraspecies, but also interspecies, between species.

Can you imagine a world in which we are aware of the communication that is happening around us, both flora and fauna? we would be so much wiser species and so much more coherent with the other species that are around us.

And that opens up a whole new range of harm.

That's Aza Raskin, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology and the Earth Species Project.

And what you just heard, how he weaves the past into our present moment, that's something he often does because Aza's scope is broad.

He's seeking to understand how and why the most popular and powerful technology of our time tends not to center the human experience or the Earth as a whole, and history can be helpful for that.

They're like, "Don't be delusional." The point is, is that we don't know all the pathways to how to get from here to there, but we all have to be part of that collective, diffuse, committed process to trying to make something different happen.

happen.Coming up, we stay on the theme of big ideas around AI and the future, but in a very different realm.

We'll explore Eisa's work with the Earth Species Project, using AI to decode animal language, behavior, and culture.

It's truly fascinating.

The Hubble Telescope turned itself on, or it was directed to look at the darkest, emptiest piece of space, right? What did it find? More galaxies than had ever been documented in one space, right? What, uh, uh, this...

I'm, I'm stealing words from, um, Aza Raskin, the founder of Earth Species Project, a really incredible project that I have so much respect for.

We looked into the space that we thought there was nothing, and what did we see? Everything.

There's literally so much to discover.