# How do AI systems handle concept drift over time?

_Last updated: 2026-07-20_  
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## Short answer

AI systems handle concept drift — the shifting relationship between inputs and outputs — with continuous monitoring of input and output distributions, scheduled or triggered retraining on recent data, and version-controlled rollout of new models with rollback.

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