Please review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ose0VxDnQc&list=PLESI2ngB_tRYPpzjZHDmPpFrLh7ii6YcO&index=1, as well as https://possibleplanetlab.org and https://institutepi.org as well as any other sources you can find and provide an update in the form of a sexond newsletter focusing on bioregional intelligence, along with an assessment of the latest trends in the development of AI and the effort to align it with life.
PLANETARY INTELLIGENCE
Research and Reflection
Planetary Intelligence and Bioregional Practice
Newsletter 1 | November 2026 | Updated 11 November 20261
Summary
Life’s capacities for sensing, coordination and adaptation are giving researchers new ways to investigate intelligence beyond individual brains. Whether these processes amount to intelligence at the scale of the whole Earth remains unresolved. Meanwhile, AI is becoming more capable of interpreting environmental data and assisting research. Its contribution to ecological health depends on how people use and govern it.
This issue connects those scientific questions with bioregional practice. It examines emerging projects, recent evidence about AI’s influence on human judgment, and the material costs of computation. It also introduces a November 6 roadmap for ecological AI models. Our central proposal is to test whether transparent, locally governed AI improves collective decisions and ecological outcomes beyond what well-supported communities can achieve without it.
In this issue
1. Defining planetary intelligence
2. Learning and agency in living systems
3. AI for Earth observation and ecological prediction
4. Bioregional intelligence in practice
5. AI capability and independent human judgment
6. Aligning AI with life
7. A research commons and a first experiment
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