From PossiblePlanetLab.org:
Our mission is to “Unleash artificial intelligence in service of life: to repair ecosystems, deepen human flourishing, and expand opportunity equitably across communities and species. We choose technologies that regenerate, policies that protect, and practices that bind us back into mutual belonging with the living Earth.”
We live inside a paradox. Our species has been capable of both the most profound creation and the most grievous harm: luminous works of art, soaring cathedrals, and brilliant science sit beside deforested landscapes, polluted waters, and a destabilized climate. The same human imagination that built cathedrals also designed systems that externalize costs onto other beings and future generations.
Now a new power arrives—artificial intelligence—an amplifier of human capacities and tendencies. This technology does not arrive neutral. It inherits our values, our biases, our blind spots. Left unchecked, it can accelerate extraction, surveillance, and inequality. But used wisely, AI can be the greatest tool yet for repair: mapping degraded ecosystems at scale, optimizing renewable-energy grids, democratizing access to education and health care, modeling pathways for equitable transitions, and surfacing patterns we humans alone cannot see.
To harness AI for regeneration we must do three things simultaneously. First, orient purpose: center AI development around ecological and social flourishing rather than short-term profit or narrow efficiency. That means mission-first funding, ethical design cultures, and accountability mechanisms that measure success in lives improved and habitats healed. Second, redistribute capacity: democratize tools and data so communities and frontline stewards can use AI to pursue local solutions—restoring wetlands, retrofitting buildings, reviving pollinator corridors—rather than leaving power concentrated in distant corporations. Third, embed humility and rights: design AI with robust safeguards for consent, transparency, and the rights of future generations and nonhuman life.
This is not technophilia or techno-skepticism alone; it is a covenant. We pledge to wield intelligence—both biological and artificial—toward repair, justice, and reciprocity. We will treat the planet not as a resource to be plundered but as kin to be tended. If we commit, mobilize funding, and build new governance and educational systems, AI can accelerate a regenerative transition at a speed and scale previously unimaginable.
This is an invitation: to researchers, governments, funders, communities, and technologists. Join in shaping technologies that remember our interdependence, and in building institutions that reward restoration. Let us choose the tools that help us become better ancestors. Let this be the generation that finally remembers it is part of the Earth, not apart from it.
To learn more, visit PossiblePlanetLab.org.