They should develop smart plants with a distributed root system, an overabundance of shoots, a preference for seeking mines, and a high threshold for shoot pain.
This would also prepare us with countermeasure systems control for when the AI tries to take over.
Smart plants that turn red when their roots reach explosives have been around for close to twenty years.
Why have they not succeeded? Near as I can tell the Danish company that launched them experienced huge pushback because they were GMO's and this was the height of anti-GMO hysteria in Europe. The charities that would fund distribution wanted nothing to do with GMO plants - even if they saved lives.
I found one study that said the rats were more cost effective. The seeds had to be flown over the field and a great number of them refused to germinate.
Years later grass started being seeded with a moist paper mulch that contained a small amount of fertilizer. Would it work with these seeds? Far as I can tell the Danish company abandoned development of the product.
Yes, let’s work on a solution that’s super expensive while and not known to actually work while we ignore cheaper solutions that may actually be affordable.
This would also prepare us with countermeasure systems control for when the AI tries to take over.