Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Mountain Climbing Poses Danger

In the latest incident, three 20-year-old young people set out to climb Mount Shasta, which is 4 thousand 322 meters high.

The group, described by the U.S. Forest Service as “novice climbers,” began climbing on Saturday and set up base camp in an area where camping is prohibited.

The young people who moved towards the summit at 03.00 on Sunday morning had enough food and water for about an eight-hour walk.

However, the journey took much longer than they expected. The group was able to reach the summit after 16 hours, around 19:00.

The young people descended in the dark and went off route. Meanwhile, one of the group injured his knee, which made things even more difficult.

The group, who could not move forward when the battery of the mobile phone they used for navigation ran out, had to set up a temporary camp to spend the night despite not having enough food, water and equipment.

Mountain rescue teams reached the area around 09.30 on Monday, found the three young people and helped them down.

The young people told the rangers that they planned their climb using Google Gemini, YouTube and the AllTrails application.

There were two other AI-related incidents in Shasta this summer. A woman pitched a tent in an area where signs clearly stated that camping was prohibited.

When the rangers told the woman that she could not camp here, the answer they received was, "ChatGPT said I could camp here." happened.

"We told him, 'But the sign says no camping,'" Meyers said. He explained it with his words.

In another incident, a hiker tried to explain to the rangers the route he planned to follow on the mountain. When the rangers could not understand the described route, the man showed them a map created by artificial intelligence.

"The map was terrible, really terrible. There were places shown on completely wrong sides of the mountain," Meyers said. he said.