In his Artist’s Note in this issue, Raphael Arar shares how his installation An Ecological Oracle engages participants with real-time data experiments to expose the tension between the individual and the collective underlying a critical tipping point of climate change—the thawing of permafrost. Likewise, this tension surrounds other critical tipping points confronting the planet, species, and vital intersecting systems of earth. Ultimately, the recognition of our inherent interconnectedness may be what remediates, if not reconciles, our individual and collective interests, perspectives, and behavior.
Moriba Jah [1], Chief Science Officer and cofounder of Privateer, emphasized in his remarks at the AI for Good Summit [2] (July 2023, Geneva, Switzerland) that one of the key potential benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) is to “help humanity see evidence of interconnectedness.” “We can’t achieve sustainability … in the absence of machines. Machines are here to help!” says Jah. Indeed, AI...