AI-Ddited Wildlife Photo in Japan Reignites Debate over Technology’s Expanding Role in Conservation
November 6th, 2025
Via Eco Business, a look at how the boom in AI-driven biodiversity tracking is attracting NGOs, tech firms and investors, yet governance remains patchy, with experts warning that the race to automate conservation is outpacing rules designed to keep it honest: A Japanese news agency’s decision to withdraw a wildlife photo enhanced by artificial intelligence […]
Read More »Using Technology To Stop Asia’s Deadly Elephant Wars
October 11th, 2025
Via Nikkei Asia, a look at how technology such as thermal drones, AI, and acoustic sensors are being used to stop the conflict between elephants and their deadliest enemy: man Thermal drones are launched. Artificial intelligence and acoustic sensors are activated to pinpoint targets. Armed rangers are sent out on patrols. Such innovations have found […]
Read More »Out of the Wild: How A.I. Is Transforming Conservation Science
May 22nd, 2025
Via Yale’s e360, a look at how artificial intelligence is being called a game changer for enabling scientists and conservationists to process vast troves of data collected remotely. But some warn its use could keep biologists from getting out in the field with the animals and ecosystems they are studying. It has always been challenging […]
Read More »Google Is Training AI to Speak Dolphin
April 17th, 2025
Via Scientific American, an article on Google’s efforts to develop an LLM that could help us communicate with dolphins: Dolphins are renowned for their intelligence and social skills. These large-brained marine mammals communicate using individualized signature clicks and whistles and even seem to recognize their own “names.” Big advances in artificial intelligence have renewed some scientists’ dream of eventually […]
Read More »An AI-Powered Robot and Gaming Are Helping Scientists Identify New Deep-Sea Species
January 30th, 2025
Via Bloomberg, an article on how an AI-powered robot and gaming are helping scientists identify new deep-sea species: Nearly a dozen miles off the California coast on a foggy October morning, a crane lifts a boxy yellow robot off the deck of the research vessel Rachel Carson and lowers it into Monterey Bay’s choppy gunmetal-gray waters. The […]
Read More »The Race to Translate Animal Sounds Into Human Language
December 22nd, 2024
Via Wired, a look at how – with big cash prizes at stake and AI supercharging research—interspecies translation is closer than ever. But what, if anything, would animals want to tell us? In 2025 we will see AI and machine learning leveraged to make real progress in understanding animal communication, answering a question that has […]
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