I think it comes down to politics, which is ultimately about convincing a public. The same public which has caused measles pandemics to rise again because enoug

I think it comes down to politics, which is ultimately about convincing a public. The same public which has caused measles pandemics to rise again because enough of it believed a YouTube video. One example is in the child services. We've got enough digital historical data from child services, that we're able to build models, that let's us predict whether or not a child will have to be removed from abusive parents 5-10 years from now. This information is relatively useless though, because there is no way to explain how it works in a sense that the general public will accept. The public is probably going to adjust eventually, but until that happens, you'll see an increasing push for documentation on how a result was reached. Ironically an algorithm that explains how it ended up with the results that it did, isn't any more moral than an algorithm that didn't. I mean, you're losing you autonomy and freedom when the government knows what you'll do before you do either way.