Comment by Uri Maoz

Cognitive and computational neuroscientist; Associate Professor at Chapman University with appointments at UCLA and Caltech
The immediate danger is not that machines will act without human oversight; it is that human overseers have no idea what the machines are actually "thinking." State-of-the-art AI systems are essentially "black boxes." We know the inputs and outputs, but the artificial "brain" processing them remains opaque. [...] This is precisely why we hesitate to deploy frontier black-box AI in civilian health care or air traffic control, and why its integration into the workplace remains fraught—yet we are rushing to deploy it on the battlefield. AI Unverifiable source (2026)
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AI Unverifiable Quote attributed to Uri Maoz (cognitive/computational neuroscientist, Chapman/UCLA/Caltech): "The immediate danger is not that machines will act without human oversight; it is that human overseers have no idea what the machines are actually 'thinking.' State-of-the-art AI systems are essentially 'black boxes.' We know the inputs and outputs, but the artificial 'brain' processing them remains opaque. [...] This is precisely why we hesitate to deploy frontier black-box AI in civilian health care or air traffic control... yet we are rushing to deploy it on the battlefield." Year 2026 (MIT Technology Review, April 2026). Vote "for" on statement "Require AI systems above a capability threshold to be interpretable" aligns correctly — Maoz argues opacity of black-box AI is dangerous, supporting interpretability. The source_url (technologyreview.com) returned HTTP 403 to WebFetch. However, web search returned both quoted passages essentially verbatim with correct attribution. Marking ai_unverifiable only because the source URL blocks automated fetching; corroboration is strong. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 4d ago
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