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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Epic Meepo" data-source="post: 9277566" data-attributes="member: 57073">I would say AI and other complex software is opaque for a number of different reasons. It's difficult to interpret without a lot of programming expertise. It's made up of many different interacting parts developed by many different engineers. It's a chaotic system (in the mathematical sense), so any attempt to predict its behavior will be resource-intensive unless you're relaying heavily on statistical models. Plus, any software trained on a large data-set is going to inherit any emergent properties of that data (such as biases).From an academic standpoint, AI is a good test case for all sorts of mathematical modeling used to predict the behavior of complex systems. From a practical standpoint, the better we understand they inner workings of complex technology, the better we'll be able to refine it (and/or regulate it).</blockquote>