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Risk: What Could Possibly Go Wrong When Farmers Use AI
The most serious threat from AI in agriculture is not isolated errors but the gradual emergence of systemic harms as tools scale faster than governance can keep up. Invisible risks like knowledge erosion and market fragility can become deeply embedded, making them nearly impossible to reverse once established.
Elliott Grant, Senior Advisor, AI for Agriculture Advisory Services, Gates Foundation; Director of the Bennett Innovation Lab at Cambridge University; and Fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge , has spent two decades building ag tech and food tech startups focused on sustainability…
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