# 由于AI表现未达预期，福特重新聘用"灰胡子"工程师

- 来源：Hacker News 热门（buzzing.cc 中文翻译）
- 作者：rbanffy
- 发布时间：2026-06-29 05:15
- AIHOT 分数：55
- AIHOT 链接：https://aihot.virxact.com/items/cmqyb3dwm00dislivbq1i20cg
- 原文链接：https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/28/ford-rehires-gray-beard-engineers-after-ai-falls-short

## AI 摘要

福特重新聘用350名资深工程师（部分为前员工，部分来自供应商），原因是AI和自动化质量系统未达预期效果。首席运营官Kumar Galhotra表示公司此前过度依赖自动化质量系统，结果令人失望，因此召回技术专家在零件进入工厂前排查故障点。福特并未放弃AI，而是让这些“灰胡子”工程师培训年轻员工并重新编程AI工具。此举预计今年将节省10亿美元成本，福特本周还在JD Power初始质量调查中位列主流品牌榜首。

## 正文

In Brief

Posted:

12:05 PM PDT · June 28, 2026

Image Credits:Bloomberg / Getty Images

Anthony Ha

Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short

Ford executives said they have hired 350 veteran engineers — some of them were former employees, while others had been working at suppliers — after artificial intelligence and automated systems failed to deliver the desired quality level.

Bloomberg reports the company’s chief operating officer Kumar Galhotra told journalists that Ford had been “relying more and more on automated quality systems” with disappointing results. So the company “brought back technical specialists,” and those specialists “hunt for failure points before a part ever reaches the plant floor.”

Charles Poon, Ford’s vice president of vehicle hardware engineering, added, “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.”

To be clear, this doesn’t mean Ford is abandoning its AI plans entirely. Instead, it’s using the rehired employees — referred to as “gray beard” engineers — to train younger staff and reprogram AI tools.

This rehiring seems to be paying off, with Ford anticipating that it will lead to $1 billion in reduced costs this year. The automaker also claimed the top spot among mainstream brands in the JD Power Initial Quality Survey released this week.

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