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Re:Deep Learning’s Impact on Image Processing, Mathematics, ... by xamuel on Sunday May 07, 2017 @08:37AM (#14285140)
>An algorithm that explains ... isn't any more moral

Not sure what "moral" means, but two things:

1. If black boxes make unexplainable decisions, that gives too much power to the person who reads the box's answer,

2. If the child services algorithm explained its prediction involved e.g. alcoholism, then the parents could try to quit.

Re:Deep Learning’s Impact on Image Processing, Mathematics, ... by xherberta on Sunday May 07, 2017 @09:37AM (#14285386)
Unfortunately, you can't quit alcoholism. Also troubling: what if the child service algo happens to predict that brown families are more abusive?