AI models are now everywhere, from hospitals to churches. The astonishing thing is that even AI experts still don’t know exactly what’s happening inside these black box models, even as they’re being deployed in the highest-stakes settings imaginable.The latest strategy to figure it out: studying them like biological systems. “This is very much a biological type of analysis,” Josh Batson, a research scientist at Anthropic, told Tech Review. A looming danger is that future models will become so complex — especially if they’re themselves designed by AI — that we’ll have effectively no idea how they work. More on AI: Indie Developer Deleting Entire Game From Steam Due to Shame From Having Used AI