Should we fear agricultural robotisation?

Many people fear that if an agricultural company starts to introduce artificial intelligence and robots, people will lose their jobs. The reality is that people just need to use artificial intelligence.To give you an example, let’s say you have a couple of people working in a few acres of lettuce field. They spray, they pick and grade the lettuce, they hoe with machines. The system is producing 60 eights below the optimum. And they say that’s good. They know when to spray, they spray three times and they pick in sequence.If you add drones and artificial intelligence that can analyse the images, the system can tell you which areas are starting to show disease. As a result, only 20% of the area may need to be sprayed. But the system is constantly monitoring and may end up warning 10 times a season. So people are not spraying 3 times, but 10 times. But if only a small part of the area is sprayed, for example 20%, then instead of 3 units, only 2 units of spray are used. So the cost is already lower. And it’s also true that because the drone photographs the whole area every day or every 2 days and the AI analyses it, the infection is stopped in the early stages of the disease and the whole area remains healthy, which can mean up to 25% more yield.On the other hand, if you don’t go in rows at harvest time, but harvest the parts with the most mature lettuce each day, you can harvest 10% more than if you go in rows.The end result is much more uniform and more profit with less damage and less spray. People had to be kept on, and more frequent smaller interventions had to be focused on. In addition, a drone technician had to be employed or hired. But we could do this comfortably with the higher profit.