Refik Anadol Proposes AI Model Based on Nature at Davos

At the 54th World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (January 15–19), Turkish media artist Refik Anadol unveiled his concept for a Large Nature Model (LNM), an open-source generative AI model trained exclusively on data from the natural world rather than human-created content. Anadol argues this approach bypasses copyright issues plaguing other AI models. The LNM draws scientific-natural information from institutions including the Smithsonian and the Natural History Museum in London, with data presented as "ethically collected." Anadol's project is tied to his upcoming multisensory museum in the Metaverse, DATALAND. He stated the model aims to "rebalance human perception of nature and society's coexistence with the natural world," serving as a tool for understanding, education, and environmental advocacy. Anadol's earlier AI work, Unsupervised, recently entered MoMA's permanent collection as the museum's first AI-generated and "tokenized" artwork.