Future Farming in India A Playbook for Scaling Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture 2025

The world is experiencing an “AI rush”. AI is presumed to be a panacea for everything, leading to the belief that it is a universal solution. Left uncoordinated, development and deployment efforts, and the enthusiasm surging around AI, are likely to hurt, rather than benefit, society and eventually slow down the AI industry’s growth.Attempts to regulate AI prematurely will thwart innovation, but a laissez-faire situation does not augur well, either. There is a need to tread a middle path that will allow society to harvest AI’s benefits while preventing the downsides. The golden mean is a framework that harmonizes the major stakeholders’ interests as well as their concerns.3.1 Introducing the IMPACT AI framework IMPACT AI will guide all stakeholders to unify their efforts to achieve a common goal: AI for all. It will spur those engaged to take action and play a positive role in AI’s development and deployment. It will also accelerate the responsible development and deployment of AI at scale.3.2 Objectives of the framework There is a need to tread a middle path that will allow society to harvest AI’s benefits while preventing the downsides. Using the IMPACT AI framework will result in several benefits including: 1. It will accelerate both the speed-to-market and the speed-to-benefit. AI innovators and users will achieve results more quickly due to the synergies created by the framework. 2. It will establish a multistakeholder environment conducive to both competition and collaboration, with AI innovators cooperating with each other at the development stage while competing fiercely in the marketplace.3. It will increase the demand for AI solutions, enabling the creation of markets where none currently exists. As a result, all AI players will get a larger piece of the fast-growing pie. 4. It will de-hype the AI market and rightsize expectations by demonstrating the real nature and size of AI’s benefits through use cases. 5. It will provide a mechanism to balance the demand for and the supply of AI applications.This report presents the Inclusive Multistakeholder Pathway for the Accelerated Convergence of AI Technologies (IMPACT AI) Framework. 29 Future Farming in India