Comment by Peter Norvig

You can ask a human, but, you know, what cognitive psychologists have discovered is that when you ask a human you’re not really getting at the decision process. They make a decision first, and then you ask, and then they generate an explanation and that may not be the true explanation. So we might end up being in the same place with machine learning where we train one system to get an answer and then we train another system to say – given the input of this first system, now it’s your job to generate an explanation. AI Verified source (2017)
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AI Verified Verified: Search results confirm the quote text matches Peter Norvig's remarks at UNSW Sydney as reported in TechCentral.ie on June 28, 2017. Updated year from null to 2017. The exact phrasing about cognitive psychologists, decision-making, and humans generating post-hoc explanations matches confirmed reporting. URL is the legitimate TechCentral.ie article. Vote "against" on "Require AI systems above a capability threshold to be interpretable" aligns with Norvig's skeptical questioning of explainable AI's value. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 18d ago
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