Researchers See Promise in Merging AI and Ecology to Create More Resilient Systems

Researchers propose combining AI and ecology, believing ecology's principles could make AI more resilient and AI could address ecological challenges.

Ecology's resilience and ability to model complex systems with many variables could inspire more robust, general AI.

AI's power to analyze big data could help ecology discover new patterns and drivers in socio-ecological systems.

Closer collaboration could yield advances in modeling ecological resilience to climate change and promoting social responsibility in both fields.

Achieving this convergence requires building bridges between the siloed disciplines with different cultures, vocabularies, and funding.