As I said, while I'm technically equivocating (you too), I am not really saying that there are no reasons to be skeptical of black box algorithms. We agree on t

As I said, while I'm technically equivocating (you too), I am not really saying that there are no reasons to be skeptical of black box algorithms. We agree on this, I think. That said, I'm not sure that we can make algorithms explainable. We may get better at interrogating them, and the analogy to human "black boxes" may get spookier, but I suspect that they're unexplainable in a "hard" sense. An explainable algorithm would have made different decisions, and probably won't be as good at making them.