Artificial intelligence in farming: Challenges and opportunities for building trust.

Autor: Gardezi, Maaz, Joshi, Bhavna, Rizzo, Donna M., Ryan, Mark, Prutzer, Edward, Brugler, Skye, Dadkhah, Ali
Zdroj: Agronomy Journal; May2024, Vol. 116 Issue 3, p1217-1228, 12p
Abstrakt: Artificial intelligence (AI) represents technologies with human‐like cognitive abilities to learn, perform, and make decisions. AI in precision agriculture (PA) enables farmers and farm managers to deploy highly targeted and precise farming practices based on site‐specific agroclimatic field measurements. The foundational and applied development of AI has matured considerably over the last 30 years. The time is now right to engage seriously with the ethics and responsible practice of AI for the well‐being of farmers and farm managers. In this paper, we identify and discuss both challenges and opportunities for improving farmers' trust in those providing AI solutions for PA. We highlight that farmers' trust can be moderated by how the benefits and risks of AI are perceived, shared, and distributed. We propose four recommendations for improving farmers' trust. First, AI developers should improve model transparency and explainability. Second, clear responsibility and accountability should be assigned to AI decisions. Third, concerns about the fairness of AI need to be overcome to improve human‐machine partnerships in agriculture. Finally, regulation and voluntary compliance of data ownership, privacy, and security are needed, if AI systems are to become accepted and used by farmers. Core Ideas: Model transparency and explainability can help foster trust between farmers and those providing artificial intelligence (AI) solutions.Assigning clear responsibility and accountability to AI decisions can improve farmers' acceptance and use of these technologies.Development of fair and equitable AI can improve human‐machine partnerships in agriculture.Regulation or voluntary compliance with data ownership, privacy, and security is needed if AI systems are to be used by farmers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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