Making Friends with AI

Etiquette Lessons for AI

How to build machines with good manners

Cassie Kozyrkov
6 min readSep 29, 2023

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You’ve just built an AI system. What will you do if mistakes happen?

Here’s one mistake already: when! “When” mistakes happen, not “if” mistakes happen!

When B.J. May stepped out of his Georgia home on a sunny day, he experienced one of my favorite AI whoopsies. The “smart” facial recognition-based lock on his front door wouldn’t let him back in because it was protecting the residents from…

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Cassie Kozyrkov

Chief Decision Scientist, Google. ❤️ Stats, ML/AI, data, puns, art, theatre, decision science. All views are my own. twitter.com/quaesita