Steve Lohr recently wrote an interesting article titled “If Algorithms Know All, How Much Should Humans Help?” for The New York Times that examines our ability to collaborate with and trust the increasingly intelligent systems that are entering both the workplace and our homes. He noted that without some level of transparency into the reasoning done by these systems, we are going to be forced to simply have faith in the output of “black boxes.”

This got me thinking about the emerging intelligent and analytic systems that are on the horizon. How are they going to interact with us? What are the ways we can partner with them? Are we going to be regulated to the role of simply looking at their output and just doing what we are told?

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