A new perspective highlights why plant traits should be built into photosynthetic efficiency models to improve estimates of global vegetation productivity. 

Artificial intelligence (AI) is not only transforming industries and daily life but also reshaping the foundations of governance, legitimacy, and citizenship. New research identifies a growing gap caused by the mismatch between rapidly advancing technology and more slowly evolving governance systems. This study argues that a legitimacy crisis can only be addressed through a dual reconfiguration of education: strengthening both AI literacy and civic literacy for a human–machine symbiotic society.