What is Black Box AI? Experts explain the hidden decision-making of artificial intelligence machines

Capps warned against high-stakes use of black box AI due to the lack of transparency behind the technology's decision-making process. New developments in artificial intelligence have thrust the technology to the forefront of public discord, but also raised concerns about the opaque decision-making process of some systems – often referred to as "black box AI." The term "black box" came from Great Britain's Royal Air Force during WWII, Dr. Michael Capps told Fox News Digital. But when it relates to AI, the term is used to describe a decision-making process that cannot be explained. "The whole idea of a black box is you're not allowed to look inside and see, and that's what we have with these artificial neural networks, with hundreds of billions of nodes inside of a box, that nobody can look into," Capps said.