Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain 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.