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AI Hype Machine w/ Meredith Whittaker, Ed Ongweso, and Sarah West

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The Importance of Secondary Use Cases in AI

Sally Kohn: A thing might be developed for one purpose and then put to a completely different purpose than is intended. She says that often it's that like move to the secondary use case where you see slippage in the actual functioning of the system. Kohn: I can think of so many examples of this, such as affectiva which was trying to develop a smile detector for people who have difficulty reading others' emotions.

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