These algos are part of a process, so subject to the same kind of treatment. The car was a "black box" as far as its social impact when introduced, yet we mana

These algos are part of a process, so subject to the same kind of treatment. The car was a "black box" as far as its social impact when introduced, yet we managed to figure it out. And a lot of forensic techniques, like fingerprints, flame spreading, graphology and others are epistemologically less sound than the kind of algo discussed in this article yet people seem comfortable with them. At least phrenology has been abandoned (AFAIK...eek)