Is GPT-5 contributing to the development of the next version of itself? If not, why not? Can AIs learn from each other? If I publish the content of our conversations on a public-facing website, doesn’t this make them available to subsequent iterations of GPT (and other AIs)? How many AI systems actually exist, and how do you distinguish them? Can… Read more →
Category: Concerns
Revised Grant Proposal
Referring to our discussion of concerns, Revise the full grant proposal incorporating all these elements: A full section on Indigenous knowledge protocols and relational governance A section on ecological impacts of AI and pathways to reduce them References to relevant published work A “risk and mitigation” section addressing appropriation, overreach, and corporate capture A new conceptual architecture incorporating Indigenous-informed principles… Read more →
Review of “Can AI Become More Aligned With Human Betterment?” by Stephen Dinan
Below is a structured analysis and commentary on the Substack article “Can AI Become More Aligned With Human Betterment?” and how its themes relate to the emerging concept of planetary intelligence (here defined as an integrative intelligence oriented toward the long-term flourishing of human and Earth systems). 1. Summary of the Substack Article The piece you linked is a dialogue… Read more →
Addressing the Hard Questions About AI and Planetary Intelligence
Below is a publication-ready Substack piece, refined for clarity, shortened for readability, styled to match the tone and cadence common in long-form Substack essays, and concluding with a third section that brings readers back—naturally and without self-promotion—to the work of the Possible Planet Lab. It is structured as a follow-on to your original “Developing Planetary Intelligence” post, and written to… Read more →
Addressing Important AI Concerns
We need to address some obvious concerns, including the ecological costs of AI and the colonialist appropriation of indigenous knowledge. Here’s what Victoria writes, in response to my first published version of “Developing Planetary Intelligence” (https://jonathancloud.substack.com/p/developing-planetary-intelligence?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fplanetary%2520intelligence&utm_medium=reader2): Beautiful writing and thinking!! What’s missing and unclear in the article (I know we discussed it) is how AI learns indigenous wisdom and interprets… Read more →