félix (d) on ai ness
félix de rosen on ai ness
via michel bauwens tweet [https://x.com/mbauwens/status/2121125121641656343?a=kKlXQioeiewnG9BoYf8&s=20]:
Back to this most important gathering, where the infrastructures of our necessary future are being imagined and developed:
* Can AI Catalyze the Regeneration of Place?
https://thebiofiproject.substack.com/p/can-ai-catalyze-the-regeneration
“Practical uses of AI for bioregional initiatives, questions of community control, and opportunities for collaboration.”
notes/quotes from félix’s article on biofiproject’s substack:
Can AI Catalyze the Regeneration of Place? – Practical uses of AI for bioregional initiatives, questions of community control, and opportunities for collaboration. (nov 2026)
my disclaimer from the start: how we gather in a space is huge.. need to try spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove to facil curiosity over decision making.. because the finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us..
ie: imagine if we listen to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & use that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)
the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
[‘in an undisturbed ecosystem ..the individual left to its own devices.. serves the whole’ –dana meadows]
there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance
ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition
otherwise we’ll keep perpetuating the same song.. the whac-a-mole-ing ness of sea world.. of not-us ness.. of part\ial ness.. perpetuating survival triage.. for (blank)’s sake..
Written by Félix de Rosen, edited by Samantha Power
On November 3, the BioFi Project organized a Deep Dive on what AI can do for bioregional and placed-based regeneration. *We convened this conversation because we believe that learning how to relate to AI is one of the most important questions of our time. **Its development is driving resource extraction, expanding opportunities for surveillance, and concentrating power over information, including knowledge drawn from local and Indigenous communities. But its potential benefits to bioregional initiatives are also undeniable, from tracking ecological change, to modeling watershed dynamics and informing where to focus and how to sequence investment in ecological regeneration.
*yeah .. huge.. and why we need tech w/o judgment
ie: need means (nonjudgmental expo labeling) to undo hierarchical listening – so we can hear what’s already on each heart as global detox in order to org around legit needs
**to me ness – all cancerous distractions to the dance
These possibilities leave bioregional initiatives with *practical questions: which tools are reliable enough to use today, what skills and resources do they require, and who controls the information they run on or that you may feed into them? For the November 3 ***Deep Dive, we invited representatives from Planet Labs, GainForest, Regen Network, and COBALT to share their work and examine where AI is useful, where it is overclaimed, and how these tools could support action on communities’ own priorities.
*most ‘practical’ question: what are the conditions for us all to be legit free
findings (aka: the things i can’t unsee) from on the ground ness deep dive and why we need tech w/o judgment
ie: the dance won’t dance unless/until it’s 1\ all of us 2\ legit free
nothing to date (ever since that day) has gotten to that root of problem
legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do
so.. no ‘req’s’.. no info ‘control’.. just tech/ai as it could be
***need to dive deeper
we need a problem deep enough to resonate w/8b today.. via a mechanism simple enough to be accessible/usable to 8b today.. in an ecosystem open enough to set/keep 8b legit free
ie: org around a problem deep enough (aka: org around legit needs) to resonate w/8b today.. via a mechanism simple enough (aka: tech as it could be) to be accessible/usable to 8b today.. and an ecosystem open enough (aka: sans any form of m\a\p) to set/keep 8b legit free
Building the field of bioregional *economics and finance is a core priority of the BioFi Project. We convened this call to connect leaders in planetary AI with place-based economics and finance practitioners, **identify needs on the ground, and examine how AI tools are already being used, and where ***collaboration across disciplines could make them more useful. This article carries that work forward by sharing the four approaches presented, the questions they raised, and opportunities for the field to pursue together.
*econ we need: bachelard oikos law.. sans any from of fin.. f & b & dm same law.. et al.. sans any form of m\a\p
**nothing to date has gotten this deep.. and it’s huge.. we need a means to grok and org around legit‘ on the ground’ needs.. (ie: maté basic needs)
***what we need is dance ing across itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing.. everyday..
Establishing shared language
To help bioregional practitioners and technology developers examine these tools together, I opened the conversation with three frameworks. AI discussions often resemble the proverbial blind men describing an elephant: one person describes an LLM, another a data center, another corporate power. All are describing aspects of AI. But without frameworks that connect those aspects, the conversations can get disjointed.
again.. why we need tech w/o judgment.. to facil the seeming chaos ness of ‘all the voices’ (even w/in ourselves) ..
ie: idiosyncratic jargon via self-talk as data listened to and facil’d by nonjudgmental expo labeling
So first, we distinguished AI models, the trained systems used for particular tasks, from the AI complex, the companies, investors, and governments building and operating them, and the AI transition, the changes their deployment brings to societies and institutions. This helps separate questions about a tool’s usefulness from questions about the industry behind it: an application can be useful while the business model supporting it remains problematic.
great ie’s of language as control/enclosure
Gregory Landua from Regen Network described how, in Regen’s experience, *AI’s greatest contribution has been helping communities shape conservation agreements.
gregory landua.. regen network et al
*to me ness.. if agreement ness.. not legit free
That deliberative process also raises a question: who controls the knowledge people share? *Gregory proposed a knowledge commons with explicit conditions governing who can access information and for what purposes. Open technology can help **protect sensitive information: locally run models let communities process it without sending it to external services. ***Open software need not mean public data.
*nothing to date legit ‘data/info/knowledge’.. (and too.. graeber can’t know law et al).. need self-talk as data.. with **’best protection’ thanks to idiosyncratic jargon‘s deep encryption embed
***public data need not mean public data .. as we know it.. ie: public as all of us and data as self-talk as data
The underlying work still involves getting underwater, observing the meadows, collecting seed with care, and listening to communities.
still not ‘deep enough’ not quiet enough.. and again.. why we need 1st/most: means to undo our hierarchical listening to self/others/nature ie: tech as it could be.. so we can org around legit needs
What stayed with me after the call was the hunger for collaboration.
dostoevsky want to talk law et al.. and again.. why we need tech as it could be
Deciding what a forest needs, whose concerns an agreement overlooks, or whether to use AI at all requires people to deliberate together.
rather.. need a nother way.. o facil curiosity/itch over decision making.. because the finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us..
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