AI advise gone wrong for farmer: A 67-year-old Chinese farmer trusted AI farming advice for nearly a year after finding it useful. But one recommendation on weed and pest control went badly wrong, killing sesame seedlings across his 25-acre field and highlighting the risks of relying on AI without expert verification.

AI is useful, but you should never blindly trust it.

The 67-year-old farmer was recommended by the AI to use high-efficiency flupyrimethalin and flusulfasulfaether to kill weeds and mix it with thiamethoxazine and methyl salt. As…