Marnie Chesterton

Yes, Manny.

In fact, you've just reminded me Kenya was named one of Africa's leading countries in using AI for wildlife conservation.

So AI technologies are helping, you know, protect endangered species in the national parks and conservacies.

They're reducing poaching.

And also there are some organizations such as Wild Wildlife Fund and Wildlife Conservation Society.

They work with tech companies, you know, and local governments on these systems.

So, yes, it's being used in Africa a lot.

Is this AI as in the chat GPT that you ask a question and it maybe makes something up?

Or is this AI as in the large language models that you can feed just huge amounts of data into and they can give you accurate predictions of something that might take a researcher six months to do?

Okay, so for example, in Kenya, we've seen the AI camera traps.

So the camera traps, they use machine learning to automatically identify animals, you know, from thousands of images.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, so this saves researchers time, and then it improves tracking of, you know, elephants, lions, rhinos.

Okay, this sounds good.

Yeah, I mean, it is good.

I mean, I obviously want to point out that it's not all good news, but this is part of the good news, at least.

I had a feeling that there was a but coming, Tristan.

Well, as you mentioned, the AI has environmental impacts and these can fall disproportionately on indigenous peoples.

So AI data centers rely heavily on critical minerals.