Pre-Read Materials
The following are useful ideas to prepare you for some of our discussion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Agriculture at our upcoming meeting in Spokane, Washington, where we'll discuss “Automation for a Resiliant Future for Agriculture: Technology, Tools and Trends.” Be sure to check back closer to the meeting, as we'll continue to add resources to this page.
Read the Farm Foundation Round Table Book Club read for this quarter: Agentic Artificial Intelligence, co-authored by Pascal Bornet and one of our Spokane meeting panelists, Shail Khiyara, CEO of SWARM Engineering.
Read the book Superagency, by Reid Hoffman
Read this primer* on "Harvesting ROI from AI on the Farm: A Practical Guide to Start Leveraging Generative AI in Agriculture", authored by Dan Maycock.
*This primer will be especially helpful to prepare for Session Four: AI Literacy, Personal Adoption, and Hands On Learning. The author, Dan Maycock, will facilitate this session.
Read a recently released issue paper by The Council for Agriculture, Science and Technology (CAST) on AI in Agriculture
Read the article "Speaking Things Into Existence", by Ethan Mollick
Read the article "Making AI Work: Leadership, Lab, and Crowd" by Ethan Mollick
Read paper by Larry Summers and David Deming that sets out the key trends in the US Labor Market
...and we definitely recommended signing up for ChatGPT or another AI agent such as Copilot (Microsoft) Domo, Gemini (Google) Claude, Meta AI (formerly Facebook) to experiment with the technology.
Special thanks to Dr. John Foltz, Round Table Fellow, Farm Foundation Board Member, and Chair of the local planning committee, and to John Power, Round Table Fellow and local planning committee member, for putting together this list of resources to share with Round Table Fellows and their guests in advance of the meeting.