The Interpretability Imperative: Why Black-Box AI is a Strategic Liability in High-Stakes Systems

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In the current gold rush of Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative architectures, the developer community has developed a dangerous obsession with predictive power at the expense of causal understanding. As a Data Scientist and Medical Doctor (MBBS) who transitioned into Cancer Business Intelligence for the NHS and is now leading as a Co-Founder at TalentHacked, I have seen the Black Box fail in real-world, high-stakes environments.