Machine learning will only become more commonplace at enterprise level, but knowing the difference between black-box and white-box models is crucial to making the right decision for your organisation.

A decision tree classifier is a machine learning (ML) prediction system that generates rules such as "IF income < 28.0 AND education >= 14.0 THEN politicalParty = 2." Using a decision tree classifier ...

A decision tree classifier is a machine learning (ML) prediction system that generates rules such as "IF age < 42.0 AND height >= 71.0 THEN jobType = 3." Using a decision tree classifier from an ML ...

All in all, not all advanced machine learning models are black box, and for most applications, a degree of explainability is sufficient to meet legal and regulatory requirements.

Molnar has written the book "Interpretable Machine Learning: A Guide for Making Black Box Models Explainable", in which he elaborates on the issue and examines methods for achieving explainability.