Black Box

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Becker: METR Uses Black-Box Methods Over Interpretability for AI Monitoring
“Usually this is black box, not, not white box in, in, in my understanding in, in current work. So, so not using interpretability, but you can imagine in principle doing, doing, doing something more white box.”
Joel Becker Feb 27, 2026 ▶ 1:00:33 Measuring Exponential Trends Rising (in AI) — Joel Becker, METR
Chalana: Neural networks work well without needing an explicit explanation
“You didn't always have to have An explanation. You can have a black box that does certain things for you. You just provided input and output and it trains a model for you. That is it works really well.”
Vikram Chalana Oct 24, 2023 ▶ 5:15 He Rode 3 AI Waves. One Thing Still Keeps Him Up at Night
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Achin: 'Black box' label reflects fear of new technology
“It's a phrase people use when they're scared of technology they don't understand and want to keep doing the same thing they've been doing for the last 20 years.”
Jeremy Achin Nov 23, 2015 ▶ 4:37 Black Boxes and Unicorns - DataRobot CEO Jeremy Achin

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