2025/07/01

Farmers Want “More Automation, Less Features” from AI

“We have perhaps yet to see a digital product as iconic as wire fences, windmills, sheepdogs, and off-road SUVs. Computers are still largely technologies of the office, not the paddock.”
– Design scholar Tom Lee, on farmers’ skepticism toward AI promises and the money poured into new agricultural technology. His interviews with Australian livestock producers reveal a preference for “more automation, less features” over Silicon Valley’s complex digital solutions. [quote edited]
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