{"id":223797,"date":"2026-06-01T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/ai-the-box-and-the-black\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T14:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:40:12","slug":"ai-the-box-and-the-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/ai-the-box-and-the-black\/","title":{"rendered":"AI, the Box, and the Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lieber.westpoint.edu\/ai-box-black\/\">AI, the Box, and the Black<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lieber.westpoint.edu\/ai-box-black\/\">https:\/\/lieber.westpoint.edu\/ai-box-black\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-01 14:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"lieber.westpoint.edu\">lieber.westpoint.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>AI Discriminatory Nature<\/strong>: The article poses whether AI processes that are not explainable can be regarded as discriminatory under international law, particularly concerning the legality of AI-enabled attacks in terms of proportionality.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Explainability Requirement<\/strong>: It questions if testing results are sufficient to justify AI deployment, highlighting concerns about systems that produce acceptable outcomes without the ability to explain their methods.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Complex AI Systems<\/strong>: The article considers the impact of employing multiple inter-linked AI systems, questioning whether their combined output can be explained and whether this affects their legal acceptability.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Trust Issues with Unexplainable AI<\/strong>: It explores whether decision-makers can trust and rely on AI systems whose operations are unexplainable, and what the role of trust is in assessing AI system lawfulness.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Accountability in AI Use<\/strong>: It discusses the implications for accountability when AI systems are not fully trustworthy and suggests that accountability may hinge on understanding and explaining how AI processes work.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Autonomous vs. Human Decision-Making<\/strong>: The article poses whether the fallibility of humans when making decisions should affect the deployment and trust in AI systems that support or replace human judgment.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Autonomy Constraints<\/strong>: It raises the prospect of autonomous systems only being used if their processes are fully explainable, conflicting with the development of fully autonomous weapon capabilities.<\/li>\n<li><strong>AI Testing and Weapon Review Requirements<\/strong>: The article examines the necessity for rigorous testing and measurement of trustworthiness in AI systems before deployment and the role of explainability in weapon reviews.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI, the Box, and the Black https:\/\/lieber.westpoint.edu\/ai-box-black\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-01 14:30:00 Source Domain: lieber.westpoint.edu AI&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/lieber.westpoint.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/getty-images-EOes_GNg7lQ-unsplash.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223800,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223797\/revisions\/223800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}