What is the black box problem in AI governance?
It refers to the inability of humans to fully understand how a complex AI model reached a specific decision. In governance, that means citizens could face major policy changes — a benefit denial, a sentencing recommendation — without any human, including the engineers, being able to explain exactly why.
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