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Grounded Intelligence: Why Most AI Innovations Never Reach the Field
Most AI in agriculture gets built for the wrong people.
As new technologies emerge at a rapid pace, many never move beyond pilot programs or demonstration projects. So what separates innovations that generate headlines from those that create real impact in the field?
Grounded Intelligence is a new podcast from AGX AI hosted by David Bergvinson. Through candid conversations with researchers, founders, farmers, and funders, the series explores what it really takes to transform promising ideas…
Episodes
Grounded Intelligence: Why Most AI Innovations Never Reach the FieldPolicy: Who Protects Farmers When AI Moves Faster Than the Rules?
AI advisory tools are advancing faster than policy frameworks, leaving smallholder farmers without legal recourse or clear accountability when recommendations…
Grounded Intelligence: Why Most AI Innovations Never Reach the FieldRisk: 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…
Grounded Intelligence: Why Most AI Innovations Never Reach the FieldInternational Day of Rural Women: Why Trust and Inclusion Drive AI Adoption
Digital access for women farmers is not a technology gap but a trust, time, and power puzzle: field evidence shows that without women-only onboarding, familiar…
Grounded Intelligence: Why Most AI Innovations Never Reach the FieldParticipants, Not Data Sources: Building Farmer Data Systems That Give Back
Thompson Ogunsanmi is a scaling specialist at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, and Ifeoma Umunna is director of agriculture at DevAfric…
Grounded Intelligence: Why Most AI Innovations Never Reach the FieldBeyond Translation: Why Localization Requires Trust, Governance, and People
In this episode, we at AGX AI explore why localization for AI-based agricultural advisory services is not just a matter of translation or model adaptation…
Grounded Intelligence: Why Most AI Innovations Never Reach the FieldThe Benchmark Gap: Why Standard AI Metrics Fail Smallholder Agriculture
F1 scores weren't built for farms with cottages, livestock, and bore wells on the same parcel. Praveen Pankajakshan and Deepa Karthykeyan (Athena Infonomics)…
Grounded Intelligence: Why Most AI Innovations Never Reach the FieldModels: Why Translating the Interface Isn't Localization
Femi Royal, Senior Advisor (governance and systems), Malcolm Durosaye, Consultant, and Ahmad Raji, Associate Consultant, are co-authors of the AGX AI…
Grounded Intelligence: Why Most AI Innovations Never Reach the FieldData Corpus: Why Smallholder AI Starts With What We Don't Collect
AI is only as powerful as the data behind it—but what happens when that data is fragmented, incomplete, or excludes the very farmers it's meant to serve? In…
Grounded Intelligence: Why Most AI Innovations Never Reach the FieldA Systems Approach to Agricultural AI: Stewart Collis on Data, Trust, and Farmer Access
Delivering effective AI advisory services to smallholder farmers depends less on model sophistication than on building the underlying ecosystem—shared data…