Would you let AI drive your car? One in five Gen Z drivers already would. After recent AI missteps, from hallucinated answers to recycled misinformation, some experts are asking a far more pressing question: If AI can’t reliably summarize a YouTube video, should we trust it with a 4,000-pound vehicle?
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