The danger of measuring Artificial Intelligence incorrectly 🤖

The wrong metric can teach an AI to do its job worse.

The startup Trajectory proposes improving specialized models using real-world usage signals—for example, when an agent fails to resolve a return and the case ends up in the hands of a person.

The idea sounds logical: detect the failure, prepare new data, and retrain the system. But there’s a catch. If you measure success by whether the user stops writing, the AI might learn to end conversations quickly, not solve problems.

And in fields such as healthcare, law, or finance, those conversations may contain highly sensitive information. That’s why human evaluations, audits, and clear rules about which data is used are necessary.

AI doesn’t just learn from data; it also learns from the incentives we give it.

Full episode: https://youtu.be/hjPL7ZsTkQc

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