External: Farmer trusted AI after it gave good advice, then it helped wipe out 25 acres of his crops
Most readers of this site know not to blindly trust AI on important matters, even if it got things right before. A farmer in Chuzhou, China, discovered this the hard way when he took weed and pest control advice from a chatbot. The result was the death of 25 acres of crops.
This incident in which a farmer asked AI to provide guidance on weed control and it told him to spray herbicide that would kill the main crop is… something.
On the one hand there is an element of schadenfreude. On the other, we need food to eat…