Ford's reliance on AI automation without sufficient human oversight led to the production of a low-quality product.

Ford rehires "greybeard" engineers after its push for AI automation backfires. "Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product." https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai-automation-human-workers-b3003787.html

"Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product.” Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/28/ford-rehires-gray-beard-engineers-after-ai-falls-short/