Artificial intelligence is now part of our daily life. Are we too dependent on it?

I don't know if this has ever happened to you, but trust me, if you rely on your phone to help you navigate, it just might someday. My wife and I were en route from Raleigh to St. Louis, having enjoyed crossing the Smokies and the Cumberlands and just coming up on Paducah, Kentucky. Having been routed around a massive traffic jam in Knoxville by my phone, I was much pleased with it, and so listened carefully when it described a similar problem ahead in Paducah. The result: Following my phone's directions, I pulled off the interstate and began taking a series of roads through Paducah, just as I had done in Knoxville. My phone kept sending me down smaller and smaller roads, and soon we were out in the country, presumably bypassing the massive interstate jam ahead.