{"id":130471,"date":"2021-11-12T12:24:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T20:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/the-ethics-of-digital-technology-in-the-food-sector"},"modified":"2021-11-12T12:24:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T20:24:04","slug":"the-ethics-of-digital-technology-in-the-food-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/the-ethics-of-digital-technology-in-the-food-sector","title":{"rendered":"The ethics of digital technology in the food sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-ethics-of-digital-technology-in-the-food-sector.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine a world in which smart packaging for supermarket-ready meals updates you in real-time to tell you about carbon footprints, gives live warnings on product recalls and instant safety alerts because allergens were detected unexpectedly in the factory.<\/p>\n<p>But how much extra energy would be used powering such a system? And what if an accidental alert meant you were told to throw away your food for no reason?<\/p>\n<p>These are some of the questions asked by team of researchers, including a Lancaster University Lecturer in Design Policy and Futures Thinking, who\u2014by creating objects from a \u201csmart\u201d imaginary new world\u2014are looking at the ethical implications of using artificial intelligence in the food sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a world in which smart packaging for supermarket-ready meals updates you in real-time to tell you about carbon footprints, gives live warnings on product recalls and instant safety alerts because allergens were detected unexpectedly in the factory. But how much extra energy would be used powering such a system? And what if an accidental [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,1506,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-food","category-policy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}