Inner workings of AI an enigma even to its creators

NEW YORK — Even the greatest human minds building generative artificial intelligence that is poised to change the world admit that they do not comprehend how digital minds think.

"People outside the field are often surprised and alarmed to learn that we do not understand how our own AI creations work," Dario Amodei, co-founder of AI startup Anthropic, wrote in an essay posted online last month.

"This lack of understanding is essentially unprecedented in the history of technology."