Artificial Intelligence is not just a technology problem. It is an ecological force acting on the ecosystem of human relationships. Every civilization is held together by an invisible ecology. Not only forests and watersheds, but bonds of attention, trust, obligation, and care. Families, friendships, mentorships, disagreements, reconciliations—these form a living network through which meaning flows. This is the ecology of… Read more →
Category: Human Intelligence
Sydney Harvey Griffith’s Planetary Party
Review and Evaluation of Sydney Harvey Griffith’s “The Field Is Ready” — and its relationship to the development of Planetary Intelligence Ref: https://substack.com/home/post/p-186228343 What Sydney is arguing Sydney’s essay uses her time at World Economic Forum in Davos not as an endorsement or critique of elites per se, but as a contrast lens. Davos becomes diagnostic. It reveals two worlds… Read more →
Personifying AI
One of my growing concerns is with the extent to which humans are personifying AI. It’s one thing to do that intentionally, to create artificial personas who can respond in certain ways. It’s anothing thing to start imputing personalities to AI agents and then treating them as quasi-spirits. Humans have a long history of misidentifying realities by personaifying them, and… Read more →
The GFL “Living Bioregion Model”
Let’s have a go at this, using clear and simple language understandable to the layperson: If you want one flagship that makes the idea undeniable, build: The GFL “Living Bioregion Model” (MVP → full platform) A public bioregional health dashboard spanning ecological/economic/social/cultural dimensions (explicitly consistent with your GFL articulation). (Genesee Finger Lakes Bioregion) A scenario room: 5–10 “what if” levers… Read more →
Amplifying Human Creativity & the Planetary Intelligence Commons
Explain how AI has unleashed unprecedented human creativity, as in the work of Deepa Chaudhary (https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepachaudhary/), founder of GrantOrb. Find others who are using AI to ask the most challenging and important questions (including ways to get to even more important questions). Is it true that being rude or commanding is the most effective way to interact with AI systems,… Read more →
How Can We Understand Ourselves Better?
I’d like to think about planetary intelligence as getting to know and understand ourselves better, from the planetary down to the bioregional, local, and personal level. If we can make available to everyone a sense of the whole—of Gaia, a miracle even without the fake spiritual trappings that some claim to have special access to—of the planet and all her… Read more →
An Outline for a Themed Dialogue at DSRE
Looking at https://youtu.be/op3ZP5RwS_M, help me refine an outline for a “themed dialogue” at the Design School for Regenerating Earth on planetary and bioregional intelligence, highlighting the important questions that the conversation should address. Here’s my thinking: (1) Background (working with AI on the Possible Planet book, wanting to understand AI’s highest potentials, David Grinspoon et al on “planetary intelligence”); (2)… Read more →
The Next Step
It seems to me that the next step for the lab is to develop a community of interest around the idea of planetary intelligence. It makes sense to have that be bioregional, as one of the first tasks is to build a practical example of bioregional intelligence using the Genesee Finger Lakes region. I’d like to extend an invitation to… Read more →
A Practical Research Program for Developing Planetary Intelligence
Saturday, December 20, 2025 First, a clarification of framing (important) Planetary intelligence is not an end goal. It is an ongoing capacity—like public health, democracy, or ecological stewardship—that must continuously adapt as conditions change. A more accurate statement is: Planetary intelligence is humanity’s developing ability to sense planetary conditions, understand their meaning, make collective decisions grounded in reality and fairness,… Read more →
The State of the World Forum’s “Center for Planetary Intelligence”
Review https://www.stateoftheworld.forum/the-center-for-planetary-intelligence and any related work or information you can find, and connect it with the work we have been doing at https://possibleplanetlab.org. Should we revise or revisit any of our proposed research program elements? What do you make of “cosmic intelligence”? Do we see convergences in the collective consciousness? Can we transcend some of the unresolved political conflicts we… Read more →