Amazon’s chief technology officer told the United Nations this week that people will have to eat more fish and less beef if they want to protect the environment, and said artificial intelligence is a tool that is already helping to achieve this.
Dr. Werner Vogels, chief technology officer and vice president of Amazon, told the AI for Good global summit in Geneva this week that AI is helping rice farmers and other food producers around the world be much more efficient. . However, he said AI will also play an important role in ensuring food is cheaper for the environment.
In his remarks at the July 6 conference, Vogels showed a graph indicating that it takes seven times as much feed to produce a given amount of protein from a beef farm compared to a fish farm. He said that means people need to move away from eating beef.
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“We have to move the protein,” Vogels said. “And we know…how damaging cattle farming is, not only because of the amount of food it needs, but also because of its impact on the environment.”
“If we want to reduce this impact, we will have to switch to eating fish as the main source of protein,” he said.
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To shift this dramatically to fish, more efficient fish farms are needed. Today, he said, fish farms are plagued by diseases that can spread too quickly to all the fish in a single pen.
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However, he said AI is already helping to solve this problem. Vogels said companies like Aquabyte are using AI and machine learning to gather fish data to quickly detect the presence of diseases and other issues that affect yield.
“Their mission is to improve fish farming techniques,” he said. “They’re building this very unique camera…to identify individual fish, to identify their growth, to identify potential diseases.”
He said AI systems have already analyzed more than a billion fish, allowing these systems to create a vast library of fish data that will make monitoring farmed fish more effective as time goes by. as they grow.
Vogels added that farmed fish is a necessary step because sea fishing has also proven to be harmful to the environment.
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“It’s an extremely damaging industry,” he told the UN meeting. “Greenpeace reports that fishing nets account for around 86% of large plastic waste, which is captured in the ‘Great Pacific Trash’, which is found in the Pacific Ocean that is three times the size of France.”
“It’s extremely damaging – current fishing approaches – to the environment,” he said. “So fish farming is a much more controlled environment for raising fish.”
The UN conference took place from July 6-7 and brought together senior UN officials and industry leaders. On July 6, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the audience that while AI has the potential for “enormous good”, even if it also presents possible dangers, “from development and from the use of lethal autonomous weapons, to the turbo-charging and misinformation that has undermined democracy.”