Why we are building decision-making machines faster than the ability to account for what they decide. Hosted by Brian Long.
Every serious organization has the same ritual. After the operation, the launch, the outage, the deal, people sit in a room and ask one question: what actually happened. The military calls it the after-action review, engineers the postmortem, doctors morbidity and mortality, lawyers discovery. The instinct is the same, and most of the time we cannot answer it. In the premiere of Warrant, Brian Long sets the franchise: we are pouring artificial intelligence into security, finance, medicine, and government without the one thing every high-stakes field figured out a century ago, a usable record. He unpacks the two meanings of the word warrant, the authorization to act and the justification that backs it, and argues we have kept the first and thrown away the second. The fix is not more intelligence. It is a record that can be replayed by someone who was not in the room.
"If a decision cannot be replayed, it should not be trusted."