Chatbots Are Leading Hikers Astray, With Dangerous Consequences
Outsourcing planning to AI can lead people to surrender their own critical thinking, which can have potentially deadly results in places like the backcountry.
Key points
- • Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming has also seen a marked uptick over the past year in the percentage of visitors who report using AI for travel information, said Park Superintendent Chip Jenkins. “It went from zero to 26 percent.
- • Maddy Varner Maybe Chatbots Shouldn’t Get to Say ‘I’ or ‘Me’ MIT professor Sherry Turkle warns that people have become dangerously enmeshed with chatbots.
- • Roughly a decade ago, when hikers, backpackers, climbers and other outdoor enthusiasts began to source their destinations, inspiration, and information from Instagram and other social media sites, they faced sometimes deadly consequences .
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