Sentient Sponges & the Great AI Coral Reef: The Dawn of Bio-Integrated Intelligence

By 2035, vast, self-organizing networks of bio-engineered “sentient sponges” – AI infused with living coral – will populate the ocean floor, forming a global underwater AI coral reef that manages climate change, cleanses the oceans, and even communicates with humans through bioluminescent displays, revolutionizing our understanding of intelligence and the very definition of life.