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The idea
The author suggests a possible compromise: improve people’s ability to understand decisions, and legally require systems that use algorithms—methods for processing information or making decisions—to be understandable to people with that ability. This could preserve the systems’ advantages without handing decision-making power to a small group of unusually knowledgeable people.
Place in the reasoning
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Proposes combining human enhancement with legal requirements for systems to be understandable to people with those enhanced abilities; it is a possibility, not a demonstrated solution.
Proposals to improve people’s abilities and require human review have limits
States the combined enhancement-and-legal-limit proposal that the narrative treats as conditional and constrained.
People need to understand decisions before they can check them
The proposal aims to make review possible, but does not itself show that reviewers will have capacity or that the legal requirement can be imposed.
What this means and why it matters
What this means
The proposal combines people’s improved ability to understand decisions with a legal requirement that systems using methods for processing information or making decisions remain understandable to them.
Why it matters
If it worked, people might benefit from algorithms while retaining a way to examine their decisions. The passage does not show that this arrangement can be achieved.
Conditions & assumptions
Source coverage: Full readable text of the author manuscript from an accessible mirror; not the publisher typeset version. This is presented as a possibility, not as a demonstrated solution. Addresses: The proposal to improve people’s ability to understand decisions and require systems to remain understandable to them. Here, algorithmic systems means systems that use algorithms, or methods for processing information or making decisions.
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