Will AI Save the Planet?

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A post on Longreads examines how artificial intelligence may help humans communicate with other species and life forms. “From the mycelial ‘wood wide web’ to smart slime molds and political honeybees, science is demonstrating that humans don’t monopolize language or intelligence,” the article states. “And cutting-edge AI, drone, and sensor technologies are allowing us to interpret non-human communication like never before.”

Read the article for more details on how AI can help humans master these complex communications and then consider how that might affect our future, our ecology, the economy, law, property rights, romance, and religion. What happens next?