Author: wvelarde

Johannssen, A., & Chukhrova, N. (2025, September 30). The crucial role of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in improving health care management. Health care management science. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12535480/ This piece follows a somewhat similar theme to one of our graduate book reviews earlier this past week on the use of AI within health care institutions. Johannssen and…

Mazrouei, N. S. A. (2025, October 27). Decoding black box ai: The global push for explainability and transparency. TRENDS Research & Advisory. https://trendsresearch.org/insight/decoding-black-box-ai-the-global-push-for-explainability-and-transparency/ This piece follows the EU’s AI Act and other legislation like it in the pursuit of making AI explainable to ensure that any deployments of it are as transparent as possible. This…

What is Black Box AI Theory?. BeverlyBoy Productions. (2025, June 17). https://beverlyboy.com/filmmaking/what-is-black-box-ai-theory/. This piece, coming from a production company for marketing, outreach, and more offers insight into an area that I’m otherwise resistant to the involvement of AI within, those being creative fields. While not terribly connected directly to their own business practices, the other…

Lin, Yang, and Taorui Guan. “From Safe Harbours to Ai Harbours: Reimagining DMCA Immunity for the Generative Ai Era.” Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, Oxford Academic, 4 Aug. 2025, academic.oup.com/jiplp/article/20/9/605/8221820. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025. This article addresses many of the same issues we’ve discussed this week already on the complications that are being…

Mengaldo, Gianmarco. “Explain the Black Box for the Sake of Science: The Scientific Method in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence.” The EGU Interactive Community Platform, EGUsphere Preprint Repository, 25 July 2025, egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2025/egusphere-2025-3509/egusphere-2025-3509.pdf. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025. Mengaldo’s piece describes the importance of the scientific method in research, and that for AI to be effectively…

Clark, Nicholas. “Commentary: The Dangers of Overreliance on Generative AI in the CT Fight.” Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, 20 Aug. 2025, ctc.westpoint.edu/commentary-the-dangers-of-overreliance-on-generative-ai-in-the-ct-fight/. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025. Clark’s piece, while largely detached from my focused issue on the black box problem, still speaks to important concerns that must be considered on the continued usage…

Marco, David. “Understanding Black Box AI: Challenges and Solutions.” EWSolutions, DataManagementU, 28 July 2025, www.ewsolutions.com/understanding-black-box-ai/. Accessed 29 Sept. 2025. This article offers further discussion on the black-box problem, particularly through a number of challenges and issues with AI automation in practice such as bias, issues of legal liability, the loss of trust, and opaque decision-making…

G, Vinky. “Black Box Ai Explained: Understanding Ai’s Hidden Mechanisms.” RPATech, 13 Aug. 2025, www.rpatech.ai/black-box-ai/. Accessed 29 Sept. 2025. This article explains the AI ‘black-box’ problem, where black-boxes symbolize a system that is not “…transparent or easily interpretable…” for humans to assess. Many users of AI programs are content to make use of these tools,…