{"id":238362,"date":"2026-06-28T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/28\/ford-rehires-gray-beard-engineers-after-ai-falls-short\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T16:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T20:40:10","slug":"ford-rehires-gray-beard-engineers-after-ai-falls-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/28\/ford-rehires-gray-beard-engineers-after-ai-falls-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford rehires \u2018gray beard\u2019 engineers after AI falls short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/06\/28\/ford-rehires-gray-beard-engineers-after-ai-falls-short\/\">Ford rehires \u2018gray beard\u2019 engineers after AI falls short<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/06\/28\/ford-rehires-gray-beard-engineers-after-ai-falls-short\/\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/06\/28\/ford-rehires-gray-beard-engineers-after-ai-falls-short\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-28 15:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"techcrunch.com\">techcrunch.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Certainly! Here is a summary of the article using an unordered list with 6 key points:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ford hired 350 veteran engineers, including former employees and those from suppliers, to improve quality after automated systems and AI failed to deliver desired results.<br \/>\n&#8211; The company&#8217;s chief operating officer, Kumar Galhotra, highlighted that Ford had over-relied on automated quality systems with unsatisfactory outcomes.<br \/>\n&#8211; Charles Poon, Ford\u2019s vice president of vehicle hardware engineering, admitted that the company mistakenly believed AI alone could ensure high product quality.<br \/>\n&#8211; The &#8220;gray beard&#8221; engineers are not only sought for their expertise but also to guide younger staff and recalibrate AI tools.<br \/>\n&#8211; The rehiring initiative is proving beneficial; Ford predicts this will ultimately result in $1 billion in cost savings this year.<br \/>\n&#8211; In an encouraging turn, Ford topped the JD Power Initial Quality Survey among mainstream brands.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford rehires \u2018gray beard\u2019 engineers after AI falls short https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/06\/28\/ford-rehires-gray-beard-engineers-after-ai-falls-short\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-28 15:05:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2255983122.jpg?w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238364,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238362\/revisions\/238364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}