After last week, I had a number different directions I could go with my capstone. Was I going to stay local or focus on a more on international agriculture? What sort of technology or crop, if any in particular, should I focus on? And how would I approach the impacts of the chosen technology? With […]
Assessing the Impacts of Autonomous Technology in Agricultural Systems
Background For this project, autonomous technology, or artificial intelligence (AI), is described as “systems in which the designer has not predetermined the responses to every condition. Such systems are capable of surprising their designers and behaving in unexpected ways” (Omohundro 2014). This technology is attractive, especially in militaristic and economic contexts, because of the ability […]