How to make AI a force for good in climate | Amen Ra Mashariki and Manoush Zomorodi
TED Talks Daily19 Des 2025

How to make AI a force for good in climate | Amen Ra Mashariki and Manoush Zomorodi

In a now-famous Go match against a human in 2016, AI made Move 37 — a seemingly nonsensical play that baffled every expert but ultimately won it the match. Amen Ra Mashariki, director of AI at the Bezos Earth Fund, thinks we need AI to make that same kind of creative leap for climate solutions. In conversation with TED Radio Hour host Manoush Zomorodi, he shares a vision for new AI solutions to environmental problems that human experts haven't yet dreamed up.


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How to empower the next generation of pilots | Refilwe Ledwaba

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