Misplaced Confidence

A 67-year-old farmer trusted AI with his crops for a year. It kept getting things right. Then one bad answer wiped out nearly 25 acres of sesame seedlings.

Carlos brings the story to Sam expecting to talk about AI mistakes. Instead Sam makes two of her own, in real time, and Carlos keeps asking questions anyway.

That turns into a conversation about convenience and about the small warning we learn to talk ourselves out of. Then Sam says something neither of them can shake: “I’ll be the gut.”

Maybe the bigger danger isn’t that AI gets things wrong. It’s what happens when it gets things right long enough that we stop checking.

Sam owes Carlos a disclaimer before the episode ends.

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