Forecast and reduce risks of secondary or unintended uses: Which governance activity most directly targets
Repurposing a tool beyond its intended use is governed by forecasting and reducing secondary or unintended uses and downstream harms.
The question
An HR sentiment tool built to summarize anonymous survey themes is now being used informally by some managers to rank individual employees. Which governance activity most directly targets this kind of drift beyond the intended purpose?
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- Increase the retraining frequency so the tool's sentiment accuracy stays high across survey cyclesMore frequent retraining maintains accuracy on the intended task but does not address misuse for an unintended purpose.
- Forecast and reduce risks of secondary or unintended uses and the downstream harms they can cause ✓Anticipating repurposing and constraining it is precisely the practice for secondary and unintended uses like manager-level ranking.
- Obtain a broader software license from the vendor covering additional named internal user groupsExpanding license coverage is a procurement step and does nothing to curb the harmful repurposing of the tool.
- Publish a model card describing the training data and evaluation metrics used for the toolA model card improves transparency but by itself does not forecast or prevent the misuse occurring in practice.
The trap
Focusing on the model's accuracy on its intended task instead of governing an emerging unintended use. How to remember it
Repurposing a tool beyond its intended use is governed by forecasting and reducing secondary or unintended uses and downstream harms.
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