With No Direction Home

“By the time the three hikers called for help from a rocky face on Mount Shasta in Northern California, they’d made a series of bad decisions. They didn’t bring enough food, and they’d overestimated their fitness. Instead of turning back in late afternoon when they hadn’t yet reached the top, they summited at 7:30 p.m. and had to descend in the dark. Their lack of preparation and poor planning, as they admitted later, came partly from relying on Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini. By morning, they were lost on a gnarly part of the mountain.” HighCountryNews: AI gets people into trouble in the backcountry. “I think they kind of turned their brains off.” (That’s definitely going around these days…)

+ “We are, moment by moment, doing less sensing, navigating, remembering, walking, choosing, and attending.” Aeon: Deskilling the body.