Explainable Artificial Intelligence

In the 1980s, Bloom County was arguably the most popular comic strip on the planet. In one sequence, the penguin Opus is running for elected office, and the local computer nerd, Oliver Wendell Jones, uses AI to analyze polling data and determines that the ideal image that voters want in a candidate is "chocolate éclair." The root problem here is that of AI explainability. Had Opus demanded an explanation on why chocolate éclair was the suggestion of the AI, the error would have been discovered. But Opus didn't, for he trusted the system, and the system was wrong.