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Wu (Chuzhou farmer)

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 16543 Report
AI Chatbot Reportedly Recommended Herbicide Treatment Linked to Loss of About 25 Acres of Sesame in China

2026-07-10

A 67-year-old farmer in Chuzhou, Anhui, reportedly used an AI-generated weed-and-pest-control plan to spray about 150 mu (25 acres) of sesame by drone. By the next day, the crop had largely withered. Agricultural technicians said the recommended mixture included fomesafen, a herbicide unsuitable for blanket application to sesame. The specific AI product and model have not been publicly confirmed.

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Incidents involved as Deployer

Incident 16543 Report
AI Chatbot Reportedly Recommended Herbicide Treatment Linked to Loss of About 25 Acres of Sesame in China

2026-07-10

A 67-year-old farmer in Chuzhou, Anhui, reportedly used an AI-generated weed-and-pest-control plan to spray about 150 mu (25 acres) of sesame by drone. By the next day, the crop had largely withered. Agricultural technicians said the recommended mixture included fomesafen, a herbicide unsuitable for blanket application to sesame. The specific AI product and model have not been publicly confirmed.

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Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Chatbot users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1654
    3 Reports

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Recommended Herbicide Treatment Linked to Loss of About 25 Acres of Sesame in China

  • Incident 1654
    3 Reports

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Recommended Herbicide Treatment Linked to Loss of About 25 Acres of Sesame in China

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1654
    3 Reports

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Recommended Herbicide Treatment Linked to Loss of About 25 Acres of Sesame in China

  • Incident 1654
    3 Reports

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Recommended Herbicide Treatment Linked to Loss of About 25 Acres of Sesame in China

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Chatbot developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1654
    3 Reports

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Recommended Herbicide Treatment Linked to Loss of About 25 Acres of Sesame in China

  • Incident 1654
    3 Reports

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Recommended Herbicide Treatment Linked to Loss of About 25 Acres of Sesame in China

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Large language model developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1654
    3 Reports

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Recommended Herbicide Treatment Linked to Loss of About 25 Acres of Sesame in China

  • Incident 1654
    3 Reports

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Recommended Herbicide Treatment Linked to Loss of About 25 Acres of Sesame in China

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Farmers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1654
    3 Reports

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Recommended Herbicide Treatment Linked to Loss of About 25 Acres of Sesame in China

  • Incident 1654
    3 Reports

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Recommended Herbicide Treatment Linked to Loss of About 25 Acres of Sesame in China

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Farmers in China

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1654
    3 Reports

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Recommended Herbicide Treatment Linked to Loss of About 25 Acres of Sesame in China

  • Incident 1654
    3 Reports

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Recommended Herbicide Treatment Linked to Loss of About 25 Acres of Sesame in China

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Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1654
    3 Reports

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Recommended Herbicide Treatment Linked to Loss of About 25 Acres of Sesame in China

  • Incident 1654
    3 Reports

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Recommended Herbicide Treatment Linked to Loss of About 25 Acres of Sesame in China

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Chatbots

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1654
    3 Reports

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Recommended Herbicide Treatment Linked to Loss of About 25 Acres of Sesame in China

  • Incident 1654
    3 Reports

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Recommended Herbicide Treatment Linked to Loss of About 25 Acres of Sesame in China

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Entity

Large language models

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1654
    3 Reports

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Recommended Herbicide Treatment Linked to Loss of About 25 Acres of Sesame in China

  • Incident 1654
    3 Reports

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Recommended Herbicide Treatment Linked to Loss of About 25 Acres of Sesame in China

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Entity

AI-assisted agricultural decision-making

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1654
    3 Reports

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Recommended Herbicide Treatment Linked to Loss of About 25 Acres of Sesame in China

  • Incident 1654
    3 Reports

    AI Chatbot Reportedly Recommended Herbicide Treatment Linked to Loss of About 25 Acres of Sesame in China

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