 One of the biggest issues confronting the world today is the impact that we human beings are having on the planet Human beings are flying the planet, but they're flying blind and flying blind is very dangerous There's a poem by Philip Larkin where he mourns the current state of the world And then he says but at least somewhere there'll be a clean ocean Untouched by humanity that will always exist We are poisoning the last wild environment that we had We receive a lot of our food from the ocean. It's the basis of the Environmental system we need a solution to creating or recreating the clean oceans that we had now There's some really interesting experiments that you might run you could put algae back in the ocean There are a bunch of things that we could do No one wants to run these larger geoengineering experiments on a real global scale what you want is to run them in simulations and AIs might do that in a way that you could at least begin to experiment with and gain large public support form The main problem that we have right now is that we don't understand how these systems work Like ecosystems are very complex everything interacts with everything and we don't know what the impact is of what we do But with more sensors and better machine learning to build models based on those sensors We can actually understand how a whole ecosystem works. So with climate We have the problem that some people are modeling how the ocean currents work We have other people who are modeling the reflectivity of the ice caps But we currently don't have a great way to merge all of these independent models together and be able to actually Understand it as a global system. So we have more sensors We have more data, but now we need to use that to have models of how Ecosystems function are different species down even to individual organisms, right? How you know the things that we're you know putting into the atmosphere change the climate etc And then we can actually the following thing Which is we can simulate an ecosystem on a computer and then we can we can see what are the impacts of doing different things And then we can do those things that actually for example give us the most gain for what we want while minimally impacting the Ecosystem we also for example use it to understand which species really are important and which species are less important, right? Because at the end of the day you often have to make hard trade-offs and sometimes species that look very insignificant They're not to be very important because the whole ecosystem revolves around them And sometimes species that are very you know that we're very fond of because maybe they you know They cuddly animals that are not to be less important So what I can give us is the ability to actually see a little bit further down the road so that we can actually make better decisions