Three hikers stranded overnight on Mount Shasta after trusting a chatbot's climbing plan
alex_verem · x · 2026-09-07
Three hikers blind-trusted a chatbot to plan their Mount Shasta climb — departing at 3 a.m. and summiting at 7 p.m. (recommended turnaround: noon). Coming down in the dark with a dead navigation phone, they wandered into a canyon, injured a knee, and spent the night at 8,400 feet with no shelter before rescue. The sheriff's office said the chatbot advised far less food and water than needed, a critical misstep. The poster frames the real danger: treating a chatbot's confident answer as a guide who's done the route a hundred times.
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