How A.I. Can Solve World’s Problems: Challenge It to a Game of Bridge

Artificial intelligence is increasingly making important decisions, but we can’t have faith in its choices unless we know how they’re made. When a decision about a mortgage, a health care policy or a medical treatment is challenged, we currently turn to a human for resolution. If and when artificial intelligence becomes the ultimate arbiter, its reasoning needs to be clear enough so that if it’s mistaken, we can intervene. Trouble is, AI learning is opaque — it involves building associations and relying on patterns that humans can’t…