The following headline tells you what you need to know about the level of stupid. California hikers used AI to guide them up Mt. Shasta. They had to be rescued
They used Gemini to "plan" their trip. They didn't have enough food and water. They didn't have the right food. They didn't have supplies for spending the night on the mountain. The recommended turn-around time is noon, to give you enough time to walk out in daylight. They didn't turn around until 7 PM, and then they veered off the trail, into steep terrain, where one fell, and was injured.
The trio had relied heavily on Google's Gemini AI for advice about their route and how much food and water to pack for what they expected would be an eight-hour climb to the summit. The chatbot's advice did not age well once eight hours turned into an overnight rescue.
Using AI to plan their trip was called a "critical misstep" by Siskiyou County Sheriff's Department.
Sheriff's officials said hikers should contact the U.S. Forest Service ranger station at Mount Shasta for current conditions and trip-planning information before setting out and should never rely solely on artificial intelligence to plan a wilderness trip.
Click thru for details, and recommendations for wilderness hiking, including not betting your life on AI.
This is not the first time that people followed advice from AI, and nearly died. ChatGPT’s hiking advice left two hikers stranded on a mountain in Poland.
Those two had to be extracted by helicopter. (That is from July.) And there's more.
This is far from a one-off incident. A couple in British Columbia ran into similar trouble last year, when an AI-planned route left them stranded on Unnecessary Mountain without the gear or forecast awareness the terrain demanded, forcing a local rescue crew to step in. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s AI incident tracker has also logged chatbots inventing entire destinations, such as a “Sacred Canyon of Humantay” in Peru that simply doesn’t exist.
The future is stupid.
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