[lysium]

> Algorithmic decisions should have audit trails.

I'm afraid it won’t help as much as we’d like. The algorithm might consider thousands of parameters all of which have scientifically been shown to correlate with some outcome.

A famous example is a denied credit application where one parameter is the battery level of your mobile.

A trail won’t help you decipher why the algorithm decided a particular action.

[lesostep]

There was a post from a guy that looked up fraud transactions in db. And every query he used, he explained in a plain terms. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155212

If an algorithm can't be explained that way, I propose that it's a shit algorithm that shouldn't be used in production in places where its directly blocks people actions

[lysium]

That article was flagged because it seemed fabricated by AI (see one of the comments).

I understand your wish to have simple rules that you can understand but I’m afraid this is often not the case with machine learning algorithms, e.g. neural networks.