Species survival: How AI can help conservation | Jonathan Ledgard | Royal Institution Talk

To protect nonhuman life on Earth, we need to give diverse life forms a digital focus. There is no digital platform for wild animals, trees, insects, and no way for them to make themselves known to us online. Join Jonathan Ledgard as he explores new AI solutions that can help represent nonhumans, aid their survival and demonstrate more completely to us their way of moving through the world. In this talk discover these interspecies services and how we can use fast evolving AI to help prevent existential risk to nonhuman life on Earth.

JONATHAN LEDGARD is a leading thinker on advanced technology, nature and risk. He is a fellow at the Prague Artificial Intelligence Centre and a Visiting Professor in AI and Nature at the Czech Technical University. Previously, as a director at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, he helped invent drone delivery of medicines in Africa. He is an advisor to companies, governments, and inter-governmental institutions. Separately, he spent 18 years as a foreign and war correspondent for The Economist newspaper, filing lead stories from over 60 countries – including a decade in Africa. As J.M. Ledgard, he is an acclaimed novelist. Submergence, a New York Times Book of the Year, was adapted for Hollywood by Wim Wenders. Giraffe, set in Communist Czechoslovakia, is also optioned by Hollywood.

Your chair for the evening is HENRY MANCE, chief features writer at the Financial Times. He has reported on a variety of environmental and animal welfare issues, and is author of 'How to Love Animals', a book of the year for The Times, Daily Telegraph, and The Guardian. Before joining the FT in 2010, he worked at a biodiversity think tank in Colombia.

 

Species survival: How AI can help conservation talk happened on TUE 22 NOV 2022 at The Royal Institution, London.