black box
Example Sentences
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The primary difference between public and private prisons, experts told Salon, is that private prisons operate in an even more impenetrable black box than public prisons.
From Salon
Investigators have announced that the black box from the Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a commercial jetliner has been recovered.
From Los Angeles Times
The DIP lenders’ lawyer, Scott Greenberg, a partner at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, said in a November hearing that his clients were lending “into a black box which seems to not have a bottom.”
“Once an artificial intelligence weapon system produces safety hazards, the ‘algorithm black box’ may become a rationalized excuse for the relevant responsible parties to shirk responsibility,” he wrote.
The plane's black box was found on farmland near the crash site.
From Barron's
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