By Sophia Duan
Publication Date: 2026-02-09 19:06:00
The global economy is preparing for major workplace changes as artificial intelligence (AI) advances and spreads across industries. Experts have been warning about this shift for years, with heated debates over whether the benefits of an AI revolution will outweigh the costs of mass workforce displacement.
Few industries make this tension as clear as agriculture. The pressure on agriculture is increasing. Global food demand is expected to increase by 35-56% by 2050, driven by population growth, urbanization and changing dietary habits.
This explains why AI is increasingly being promoted as a productivity solution to produce more food with fewer inputs in more volatile conditions.
But on farms, enthusiasm for AI is often tempered by caution. And this caution is not just about whether jobs will disappear. A deeper concern is risk and who will bear responsibility if the technology fails.
Technological change
Agriculture is not a controlled environment. Agriculture is organic, dynamic and…