We Need Planetary Intelligence in the Age of AI
The large language models (LLMs) that have captivated the world are among the most powerful tools ever built. Many can give PhD-level answers to virtually every discipline under the Sun. They are revolutionary. But for all this brilliance, they are, in a fundamental sense, blind. They know the world the way a scholar locked in a library knows it: deeply, but without any lived experience. For all their brilliance, they are largely disconnected from the physical world.
