University of Exeter: Scientists Increasingly Depend on ‘Black-Box’ Tools They Cannot Control or Fully Understand

University of Exeter: Scientists increasingly depend on ‘black-box’ tools they cannot control or fully understand

University of Exeter: Scientists increasingly depend on ‘black-box’ tools they cannot control or fully understand . “As AI becomes more capable and autonomous, this lack of transparency will make scientific findings harder to interpret and verify. This issue extends beyond AI. Many remote sensing products rely on proprietary processing that researchers cannot fully access and verify, while some wildlife tracking devices provide only processed an…

Scientists increasingly dependent on ‘black-box’ tools they cannot control or fully understand

Scientists are increasingly relying on powerful data sources and tools that they often cannot fully understand, inspect or verify, according to a new study.   State-of-the-art tools and data like artificial intelligence (AI), satellite imagery, online data and digital sensors are revolutionising the way scientists study the natural world.   But such systems effectively operate as scientific “black boxes” that can increasingly challenge the trust…