04/09/2025
Congratulations to in-house researcher Mayowa Osibodu for being one of the winners at Humane Intelligence's Third Bias Bounty Challenge.
In collaboration with the Indian Forest Service, this challenge focused on building AI solutions to provide community-aware recommendations for tree planting sites in Himachal Pradesh, a state in Northern India lying within the western Himalayas.
Although afforestation is generally a positive for the environment, it's important to ensure that tree-planting does not disrupt the lives and livelihoods of existing communities, especially the most vulnerable in society.
This challenge focused on building AI models to process significant amounts of climate, geographic and socioeconomic data, to provide ecologically feasible tree-planting recommendations which also took community concerns into account.
