{"id":239442,"date":"2026-07-01T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/ford-had-to-rehire-veteran-engineers-after-its-ai-flopped-other-employers-should-take-notice\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T21:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:15:18","slug":"ford-had-to-rehire-veteran-engineers-after-its-ai-flopped-other-employers-should-take-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/ford-had-to-rehire-veteran-engineers-after-its-ai-flopped-other-employers-should-take-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford Had to Rehire Veteran Engineers After Its AI Flopped. Other Employers Should Take Notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/roadshow\/news\/ford-recalls-veteran-engineers-ai-falls-short\/\">Ford Had to Rehire Veteran Engineers After Its AI Flopped. Other Employers Should Take Notice<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/roadshow\/news\/ford-recalls-veteran-engineers-ai-falls-short\/\">https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/roadshow\/news\/ford-recalls-veteran-engineers-ai-falls-short\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-01 21:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnet.com\">www.cnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ford CEO Jim Farley has stated that AI will drastically reduce white-collar jobs in the US, predicting AI could replace up to half of such roles.<\/li>\n<li>Ford has rehired over 350 experienced &#8220;gray beard&#8221; engineers to address quality control issues in their AI systems, after initial AI implementations did not yield desired results.<\/li>\n<li>The automaker has cut more than 20,000 jobs over the last decade, but the exact link between these job cuts, AI adoption, and the rehiring of experienced staff is unclear.<\/li>\n<li>Ford&#8217;s reliance on automated quality systems has led to high warranty costs and recalls, leading to an admission that the early adoption of AI was premature.<\/li>\n<li>Ford has made significant improvements in vehicle quality, ranking first in JD Power&#8217;s 2026 Initial Quality Survey, attributing part of this success to the rehired veteran engineers.<\/li>\n<li>The AI-driven quality systems are being supplemented by the veteran engineers who are now training new staff and updating the data pipelines used by AI tools.  <\/li>\n<li>Ford continues to use AI but has built a dedicated software quality assurance team and increased automated testing to improve system reliability.<\/li>\n<li>The situation is emblematic of broader trends in tech and manufacturing, where companies are beginning to realize the challenges of replacing human judgment with automation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford Had to Rehire Veteran Engineers After Its AI Flopped. Other Employers Should Take Notice&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/3a788dcce317f271c9cf10286dd9e9f7ab3f3285\/hub\/2025\/08\/11\/e242d1b9-0313-4057-b78f-759e9f1b8906\/ford-farley-at-louisville.png?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239442","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\/239442"}],"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=239442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239444,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239442\/revisions\/239444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}