Making Friends with AI

The Mistake Every Data Scientist Has Made at Least Once

…and how to increase your chances of avoiding it

Cassie Kozyrkov
7 min readAug 1, 2022

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If you use a tool where it hasn’t been verified safe, any mess you make is your fault… AI is a tool like any other, so the same rule applies. Never trust it blindly.

Instead, force machine learning and AI systems to earn your trust.

If you want to teach with examples, the examples have to be good. If you…

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