Use of Artificial Intelligence in Sustainable Agriculture:

A Preliminary Analysis

Egemen Bezci

Abstract.

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) has great potentials to address the pressing sustainability issues in the Anthropocene epoch. One of the most important use of AI technologies is recognized as its role to increase efficiency of the agricultural production to address poverty, and to reduce the negative environmental impacts. One of the important steps, thus, is to reduce the agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. However, an expert survey conducted as a part of this study warned that the AI applications for agricultural sector could creatr perverse incentives, increase hidden energy costs and ignore the externalities. This article initially surveys the role of the Artificial Intelligence for the agricultural production. Following the initial literature survey, this research provides a basic preliminary empirical data analysis from 73 countries to demonstrate the whether their advancements in AI applications has decoupled their Agricultural Greenhouse gas emissions from the food production.

Contents.

1. Introduction

2. Anthropocene and Food Security

3. AI and Sustainability

4. AI and Food Security

5. Methodology

6. Empirical Results

7. Conclusion and Further Research