Ethics and Values / Unit 8 Ethics 398 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Opacity Problem
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The idea
The opacity problem: decisions that shape lives owe reasons, and a black-box system produces verdicts no one — including its makers — can explain.
In practice
A loan denial that answers "why" with "the model said so" fails the reasons requirement the first unit set for everyone else.
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