Social Implications of Implementing Artificial Intelligence in the Russian Agriculture

The purpose of the study is to analyze the necessary conditions for the successful application of artificial intelligence in the digitalization of agriculture. On the example of the list of the most significant developments of artificial intelligence offered by the market in the industry, these conditions and the problems of their successful application are analyzed, since the intensity and coverage of the directions of development of technologies and methods of artificial intelligence turned out to be so great that the introduction of these technologies can radically change not only the economic, but also the social situation. The most important resource for these applications is data, so much attention is paid to the formation of a structured space for them. It is shown that Russian agriculture is not ready for a full-scale digital transformation due to the lack of necessary conditions for the introduction of innovations. For example, 90% of all data at Russian enterprises is recorded on paper or entered manually into Excel, it is impossible to use them for artificial intelligence technologies. It is shown that the solution to this problem can be the formation of a single digital platform for managing the economy, consisting of two specialized subplatforms: an aggregator subplatform for collecting and accumulating primary information and an applied subplatform for production management tasks. At the same time, the widespread introduction of a single digital control platform in any production leads to a more efficient system for applying artificial intelligence technologies. It is shown that the applications of these technologies must undergo integration transformations into the standards of the proposed unified digital platform for agricultural management, obtained by mathematical modeling. The used original model for the formation of a digital platform for agricultural management is based on the experience of informatization of agro-industrial enterprises of the Kuban with the introduction of artificial intelligence elements in the cultivation of tomatoes and sugar beets. This digital control platform will become an integrator of scientific and industrial information systems. And artificial intelligence technologies in this case will determine the structure of IT specialists, restructure education at universities, significantly increase the efficiency of digitalization of agriculture, and lead to a significant reduction in environmental hazards throughout the agro-industrial complex.