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Artificial intelligence algorithms are often seen as 'black boxes' whose rules remain inaccessible. We must therefore create a new scientific discipline to understand the behaviour of the machines that rely on them, as we did for the study of animal behaviour. This is the perspective of Jean-François Bonnefon, who along with 22 other scientists just signed an editorial in the journal Nature.
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