# How AI is unearthing hidden scientific knowledge

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED Countdown and Bezos Earth Fund
- Speaker: Sara Beery
- Year: 2025
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Earth and environment
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/sara_beery_how_ai_is_unearthing_hidden_scientific_knowledge)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Scientists estimate that 80 percent of life on Earth is still unknown to humanity. But as global temperatures rise, habitats shrink and food and water sources dry up, we're losing these species faster than we can discover them. AI naturalist Sara Beery reveals how the knowledge to study (and save) the natural world may already exist, buried in millions of images, recordings and observations. We just need to learn how to read them before it's too late.

## Lectures

1. [How AI is unearthing hidden scientific knowledge](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/sara_beery_how_ai_is_unearthing_hidden_scientific_knowledge/505c7b4decbf), 13 min (TED's player)