{"id":458814,"date":"2026-03-05T11:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/458814\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T11:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:35:10","slug":"gloucestershire-farmer-relying-on-ai-to-monitor-his-herd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/458814\/","title":{"rendered":"Gloucestershire farmer relying on AI to monitor his herd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Westaway spoke to BBC Radio Gloucestershire as part of wider coverage on the use of AI across the county &#8211; a discussion which also included Chloe Turner, leader of Stroud District Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She explained how the council had been using AI for transcription, so staff can &#8220;concentrate on the bits where the human is really important&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Turner also expressed concerns more widely that AI was being rolled out &#8220;before we necessarily understand the risks&#8221;, as well as issues surrounding the technology&#8217;s impact on the environment and employment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Turner said she had added AI to an upcoming Stroud District Council meeting agenda and councillors and staff have received some training on it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Personally, I&#8217;m quite a fan of humans, so I don&#8217;t particularly want to replace the human race with machines,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I can see the economic upsides but I am concerned about job losses in future, particularly for young people, where a lot of entry-level jobs are potentially going to be replaced by this technology.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Westaway spoke to BBC Radio Gloucestershire as part of wider coverage on the use of AI across the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-458814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}