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implementation, starting with low-risk applications and scaling up as confidence grows, is the most effective strategy. Transparency and accountability are essential when deploying AI solutions, as they help maintain trust and support effective troubleshooting.
Finally, it is imperative to consider the human side of the co-pilot relationship. Through robust workforce training and active engagement, employees can develop the skills needed to collaborate effectively with technology, ensuring that human insight and machine intelligence work together seamlessly, leading to better outcomes.
An additional benefit in prioritizing human and AI collaboration is that by investing in AI literacy and skills, developments can also address employment concerns and job evolution proactively.
The future of food manufacturing
By responsibly integrating intelligent solutions, the UK food industry can appropriately and comprehensively address
the significant issues that it faces. While not a complete solution, it should, at the very least, improve the efficiency, resilience, quality, and sustainability of all aspects of the food system.
If the UK is to keep pace with other nations and economic blocs, the time for embracing innovation is now. ■
Eleanor‘ Nell’ Watson www. nellwatson. com
Eleanor‘ Nell’ Watson is an IEEE member and AI ethics engineer and in the AI Faculty at Singularity University. Author of‘ Taming the Machine: AI’, Eleanor works principally as a machine intelligence researcher and serves as Chair & Vice-Chair respectively of the IEEE’ s ECPAIS Transparency Experts Focus Group, and P7001 Transparency of Autonomous Systems committee on A. I. Ethics & Safety, engineering mechanisms into A. I. to help safeguard algorithmic trust. She holds the position of Executive Consultant on philosophical matters for Apple, as well as the President of EURAIO, the European Responsible Artificial Intelligence Office. She was one of the first signatories for the Future of Life Institute’ s Open Letter on AI.
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