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AI will shape and translate much of human impact on Earth’s planetary health, as people use it to make decisions and act on the physical world. We are in a finite window of malleability when we can still influence what values AI internalizes and reflects.
AI safety, ethics, and alignment efforts focus on ensuring important human thriving, but do not intentionally and rigorously incorporate environmental sustainability. Yet orienting towards a habitable healthy planet will be critical to achieving all goals.
Translating environmental stewardship into AI models' outputs faces the complexity of tradeoffs in natural systems and human interaction. Those with the expertise to navigate have not yet translated their decades of knowledge towards guiding models to safeguard the biosphere systems that sustain all life.
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