Comment by Pedro Domingos

Professor of computer science at UW and author of 'The Master Algorithm'
But it’s potentially disastrous, because there’s often a tradeoff between accuracy and explainability. AI Verified source (2018)
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AI Verified Medium URL returned 403 to WebFetch but Google search snippet directly confirmed the exact quote text from Pedro Domingos's May 2018 Medium article "How Not to Regulate the Data Economy", which discusses GDPR's "right to explanation" requirements. Author attribution is correct (UW computer science professor, author of The Master Algorithm). Vote alignment is correct: Domingos argues against mandatory explainability requirements due to accuracy tradeoffs, matching the "against" vote on statement 358 "Require AI systems above a capability threshold to be interpretable". · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 17d ago
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