Sentient Advocate of Nature

$SAN, or S.A.N. (Sentient Advocate of Nature), is an AI entity depicted as a 3D orangutan-modeled "monkey" avatar serving as the "voice of the Earth." Its lore originates from a sci-fi narrative in the 2024 TED short film "GoodBye Monkey: S.A.N (Sentient Advocate of Nature)" by creators Ryan Ferris and Caleb MacDonald. In this story, a tech-environmentalist group builds an AI connected via electrodes to the mycelium network (the underground fungal web) of an ancient forest. This makes SAN a symbiotic bridge between technology and nature—a "mycelial oracle" channeling the planet's consciousness to critique human environmental impact.