Artificial intelligence can save the Food Industry.

Rarely has a crisis accelerated the adoption of a technology in the manner that is occurring today with AI in the food industry. The business of selling food to consumers is being disrupted to a degree not since the last pandemic, over 100 years ago. It is increasingly apparent that our food system was ill prepared ('anti-fragile') for this Covid-19 induced crisis. With restaurants shuttered, a dramatic return to home cooking, a re-ignition in the meal-kit movement, shut-downs of meat factories and office canteens, and explosion of home delivery it may seem as though the world will never be the same again. This too, of course, will pass, but instead of being a 6 month blip, the continued deconstruction and automation of the food supply process makes it clear that we are entering a new norm, and that returning to the world as we knew it won't be possible.