# AI, Farming, Data Collection, Science &Thw Future Of Food

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**Created:** [March 29, 2021, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-farming-data-collection-science-thw-future-of-food/938958 "2021-03-29T09:34:40Z")\
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This is a long read. If the food you and your family eat and the future of how your food is grown is of interest to you please read this article.

I’m still reading it and frankly I need some time to process this information.

Thank you.

[https://itforchange.net/digital-new-deal/2020/10/30/food-for-all-or-feeding-the-data-colossus-the-future-of-food-in-a-digital-world/](https://itforchange.net/digital-new-deal/2020/10/30/food-for-all-or-feeding-the-data-colossus-the-future-of-food-in-a-digital-world/)

Couple of random paragraphs from article:

“The manipulation of consumer behavior can generate real-time profit opportunities in genetics or farm conditions. Technology platforms with interests across the food chain can leverage consumer insights to redesign seeds, farming patterns, and logistics in ways that maximize short-term profit at great cost to ecosystems, health, justice, and people’s rights.”

- [12](https://itforchange.net/digital-new-deal/2020/10/30/food-for-all-or-feeding-the-data-colossus-the-future-of-food-in-a-digital-world/#article-footnote-hook-293-%2212) Nudge is a particular form of choice architecture that alters people’s behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives. In Karen Yeung’s “‘Hypernudge’: Big Data as a Mode of Regulation by Design, Information, Communication & Society”, 20:1, 118-136, 2017. [https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1186713.](https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1186713.)"

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A site I recommend for learning about our future concerning our lives now and going forward.  
What implications does future legislation on ai technology, algorithms, ethics, our personal, business, and medical data?

Information, Communication & Society

> **[Information, Communication & Society](https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/current)**
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> Special Issue on Tech Companies and Public Interest. Volume 26, Issue 1 of Information, Communication & Society

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**Post date:** [March 29, 2021, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-farming-data-collection-science-thw-future-of-food/938958/2 "2021-03-29T19:55:32Z")

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In other words, if farmers realize that people are buying more of certain foods, they’ll grow more of those foods, and if farmers find that they’re growing an excess of certain foods, they’ll advertise to try to get people to buy more of those foods.

This is not at all new-- It’s probably been going on for as long as farming has. All that’s changed is that now they’re using computers to help make those decisions, and what of that? Everyone is using computers to help with everything, nowadays.