The role of AI in detecting and attributing Biodiversity Change

Last Monday, Professor Andrew Gonzalez gave a talk at the AI for Good Summit about the role of Artificial Intelligence in monitoring biodiversity change.

Prof. Gonzalez stated that we need a formal framework and guidelines for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change to support effective policy. He proposed the implementation of a framework to guide detection and attribution analyses, where Artificial intelligence can play a strong role.

Specifically, we need to develop monitoring systems and tools able to deliver rapid and reproducible assessments following ecological events that would take a few weeks rather than years.

This framework could strengthen the bridge between biodiversity science and artificial intelligence and therefore support rapid assessments of actions required to mitigate human impacts and reduce rates of biodiversity loss.