{"id":179405,"date":"2026-01-18T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/18\/how-planetary-intelligence-could-be-the-next-phase-of-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T05:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:45:09","slug":"how-planetary-intelligence-could-be-the-next-phase-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/18\/how-planetary-intelligence-could-be-the-next-phase-of-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"How &#8216;planetary intelligence&#8217; could be the next phase of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/stories\/2026\/01\/planetary-intelligence-ai-internet-real-world\/\">How &#8216;planetary intelligence&#8217; could be the next phase of AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/stories\/2026\/01\/planetary-intelligence-ai-internet-real-world\/\">https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/stories\/2026\/01\/planetary-intelligence-ai-internet-real-world\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-18 05:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.weforum.org\">www.weforum.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The concept of &#8220;planetary intelligence&#8221; combines large-scale AI models with global sensing and computing satellites to create advanced systems that can understand, anticipate, and reason about real-time changes in our planet.<\/li>\n<li>By integrating substantial computing power directly into space, raw satellite data can be processed on-board, eliminating the need to send data to Earth for interpretation.<\/li>\n<li>Planetary Intelligence Models (PIMs) can be seen as a mind or consciousness that maintains a dynamic model of the world and constantly checks it against data from satellites, much like predictive coding in neuroscience.<\/li>\n<li>These PIMs can provide valuable insights when satellite observations diverge from expectations, generating prediction errors that identify anomalies or potential threats in environmental, economic, and security sectors.<\/li>\n<li>The system could potentially enable early disaster warnings, more accurate climate adaptation strategies, better economic predictions, and enhanced security by recognizing patterns of escalation or conflict.<\/li>\n<li>By embedding AI within physical systems like rivers, roads, and cities, planetary intelligence aims to transform AI from tools primarily used in human communication to include an understanding of the physical world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How &#8216;planetary intelligence&#8217; could be the next phase of AI https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/stories\/2026\/01\/planetary-intelligence-ai-internet-real-world\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-18 05:00:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.weforum.org\/article\/image\/responsive_large_bAgpFsWCpeLf0vcXEwCzyYswEdhC78t8D0GJpAxnLZE.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179407,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179405\/revisions\/179407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}