AI Didn’t Kill 25 Acres of Crops. Human Overconfidence Did.
A farmer lost 25 acres of crops after trusting AI pest control advice that worked perfectly for months. But blaming AI’s unreliability misses the point. The real culprit is human cognitive bias: the ‘success heuristic’ that lulls us into dropping our guard. When AI is predictably good 95% of the time, it breeds the complacency that makes the 5% catastrophic.