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What qualifies as a black box? - KNIME Tutorial
From the course: Machine Learning and AI Foundations: Producing Explainable AI (XAI) and Interpretable Machine Learning Solutions
What qualifies as a black box?
- [Instructor] In an article in ProPublica, the authors explored racial disparities and sentencing between White and Black defendants. I won't explore all the subtleties of the controversy, nor summarize both sides of the argument, just one specific issue that's especially relevant to our discussion. What model should be treated as black box models? In a Harvard data science review article, Cynthia Rudin and her co-authors attempted to reverse engineer the compass risk score. The compass risk score is used to predict the risk that a released prisoner will commit again in the future. And it was the score that was discussed in the ProPublica article. In response, members of the team behind the compass risk score wrote setting the record straight, explaining that they didn't use a black box technique. They used logistic regression. In a further response, Rudin wrote that it doesn't matter if the model was logistic if the…
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