Researchers Hope Artificial Intelligence Can Save Our World's Dying Reefs

The alleged effects of climate change are reportedly responsible for coral reef bleaching, which is having catastrophic impacts on local marine species. Hoping to reverse this supposed trend, a new method of artificial intelligence (AI) cataloguing designed to identify the geographic regions where coral still thrives, aims to save some of the world's densest and varies aquatic ecosystems. Between ethical and economic concerns, there are plenty of reasons why saving our world's coral reef systems are in our best interest. Aside from providing habitat to a quarter of marine species, reefs generate $375 billion (USD) in revenue to the world economy, along with food security to over 500 million people. Without our ocean's reefs, researchers believe countless species and an entire ocean fishing industry would cease to exist.