A Federal News Network commentary by Lee Koepping argues that U.S. government agencies deploying increasingly autonomous AI systems need an aviation-style ‘black box’ — a flight-recorder mechanism that captures how an AI system reached a decision and what it was authorized to do. The piece contends that AI observability inside government has shifted more in the past 8-12 months than in the prior 8-12 years, and that without such record-keeping agencies will struggle to audit or learn from AI-driven failures.
