Artificial Intelligence Empowers Global Food Security:Current Situation,Challenges and Responses
Food security constitutes a necessary condition and universal feature for the normal operation of a country.It is an important indicator of indi-vidual ability to obtain nutritious and sufficient food.It is crucial to human survival,development and social continuity.Food security has become the focus of global attention,and eradicating hunger has become the core of the global food security agenda.Artificial intelligence has shown unique advan-tages in solving this problem.Since the era of Industry 4.0,artificial intelligence has played a key role in assisting food production,ensuring food qual-ity,and optimizing food supply,making outstanding contributions to achieving the"Zero Hunger"goal in The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustain-able Development.Although artificial intelligence provides practical solutions to respond to global food security,it still faces major challenges such as weak technology popularization and less public acceptance,data security and user privacy protection,and the limited function in dealing with climate change.The way of using AI and the application scope of AI assist agricultural production and respond to climate change.Therefore,improving artifi-cial intelligence empowerment strategies,improving artificial intelligence technology innovation,and strengthening artificial intelligence empowerment applications have become the paths in response to global food security.