Low hanging fruit According to Kurt House, co-founder and CEO of KoBold, the low-hanging fruit in the form of easy-to-reach mineral reserves are mostly gone, and the narrow window available to act to prevent climate change means that we simply don’t have the luxury of time to wait another 10 or 20 years to make more discoveries. KoBold is partnering with Stanford University’s Center for Earth Resource Forecasting in developing an AI agent that will make decisions about where explorers should focus their attention. KoBold will first look for copper, cobalt, nickel, and lithium--key metals in the manufacture of batteries for EVs, smartphones, and other renewable equipment such as solar panels.