Hikers stranded on Mount Shasta after relying on AI to plan trip, sheriff says

A trio of novice hikers who turned to AI to help plan their climb up California’s Mount Shasta ended up stranded overnight in a steep canyon after their trek went dangerously off course, authorities said.

The three young men from Roseville told a Siskiyou County sheriff’s deputy after their rescue that they had relied heavily on Google Gemini for information about the route and what to pack for the trip.

That proved to be a "critical misstep," the sheriff’s office said, because Gemini...