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

This episode of TED Talks Daily features Manoush Zomorodi interviewing Amen Ra Mashariki from the Bezos Earth Fund about the role of AI in addressing climate and nature challenges. Mashariki discusses the fund's approach to identifying and funding innovative projects, emphasizing the importance of AI in generating creative, counterintuitive solutions, referencing the concept of "Move 37" from the game of Go, where an unexpected move led to victory. They explore the potential of AI to track reforestation efforts and the need for transparency and accuracy in understanding AI's environmental impact, highlighting the intersection of the "consequential decade" of AI ethics and the "decisive decade" for climate action.