In a new Popular Science article, our PhD Researcher Maaike Verbruggen, talks about autonomous war machines: “The type of AI called Deep Learning is notoriously opaque and is therefore often called a “black box.” It does something with probability, and often it works, but we don’t know why,” she says. “But how can a soldier assess whether a machine recommendation is the right one, if they have no idea why a machine came to that conclusion?”