Incident #1654
AI Chatbot Reportedly Recommended Herbicide Treatment Linked to Loss of About 25 Acres of Sesame in China
Description
A 67-year-old farmer in Chuzhou, Anhui, reportedly used an AI-generated weed-and-pest-control plan to spray about 150 mu (25 acres) of sesame by drone. By the next day, the crop had largely withered. Agricultural technicians said the recommended mixture included fomesafen, a herbicide unsuitable for blanket application to sesame. The specific AI product and model have not been publicly confirmed.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- wu-(chuzhou-farmer)
- chatbot-users
Alleged Developers
- large-language-model-developers
- chatbot-developers
Harmed Parties
- wu-(chuzhou-farmer)
- farmers-in-china
- farmers
- epistemic-integrity
- chatbot-users