# Can AI help solve the climate crisis?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED Countdown Summit
- Speaker: Sims Witherspoon
- Year: 2023
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Computer science, Earth and environment
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/sims_witherspoon_can_ai_help_solve_the_climate_crisis)
- 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)

"AI can be a transformational tool in our fight against climate change," says Sims Witherspoon, a leader at the AI research lab Google DeepMind. Using wind power as her case study, she explains how powerful neural networks can help us better predict Earth's changing ecosystems and accelerate the breakthrough science needed to create a carbon-free energy supply.

## Lectures

1. [Can AI help solve the climate crisis?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/sims_witherspoon_can_ai_help_solve_the_climate_crisis/310713758db5), 13 min (TED's player)