At a Cargill slaughterhouse in Texas, AI-equipped cameras scan every cattle carcass and let workers know when they’re literally leaving too much meat on the bone.

Even a 1% improvement in yield could produce millions more pounds of meat a year thanks to artificial intelligence.

“I do believe it’s the most transformative technology or innovation of my lifetime,” Cargill CEO Brian Sikes said at an event in Iowa last month. “There will be companies that embrace this and those that don’t, and I think we’ll look back in a decade, and those that don’t embrace the opportunities that it brings will be in the graveyard.”

Minnetonka-based Cargill is one of many food companies enthusiastically embracing artificial intelligence, adopting the technology to make innovation, supply chains, marketing a

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