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We are building minds made of silicon. But because they are black boxes, we are like Zeus watching the forge of Hephaestus: we see the raw ore go in and the thunderbolt come out, but we have no idea how the fire works. We cannot go back. The black box is too powerful. Self-driving cars see things humans miss. Medical AI spots tumors in MRIs that radiologists gloss over.

Ironically, we call this device the "black box" (it’s actually bright orange). It is the ultimate witness. It swallows a storm of inputs—airspeed, altitude, button presses, screams—and produces a perfectly linear story of cause and effect. blackbox

The old black box—the flight recorder—was built to survive a fire. It tells us exactly why we crashed. We are building minds made of silicon