Gallon

The salient characteristic of the fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0, is that machines take decisions without human intervention. One of the results of this fact is that humans and machines interact as partners in teams or communities. This is already happening with personal assistants and chatbots, and as AI-driven IoT develops, there will be increasing levels of hybrid human-machine interaction and shared decision-making. This presentation dives a bit deeper into the questions of how we keep track of decisions made in a machine-to-machine context (i.e. in code unreadable by humans) or by algorithms that are black boxes even to the programmers that designed them. How can we follow up, perhaps years later, to understand the basis on which a decision was made by machines, and which may be pivotal to a lawsuit or other investigation?