A farmer destroys 10 hectares of crops after following AI advice on weed and pest control.
- There are increasing examples demonstrating that blindly trusting Artificial Intelligence is a mistake, sometimes more costly than others.
- While this technology has proven very useful and convenient for millions of tasks, experts recommend questioning it and being skeptical of what it tells us, because it is far from perfect.
- An extreme case, but one that highlights the danger of following AI's instructions to the letter, has occurred in the Chuzhou region of China, where a 67-year-old farmer has lost more than 10 hectares of farmland because of listening to AI.
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- There are increasing examples demonstrating that blindly trusting Artificial Intelligence is a mistake, sometimes more costly than others.
- While this technology has proven very useful and convenient for millions of tasks, experts recommend questioning it and being skeptical of what it tells us, because it is far from perfect.
- An extreme case, but one that highlights the danger of following AI's instructions to the letter, has occurred in the Chuzhou region of China, where a 67-year-old farmer has lost more than 10 hectares of farmland because of listening to AI.
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