The opposite of a black box is sometimes referred to as a glass box. An AI glass box is a system whose algorithms, training data, and model are all available for anyone to see.

But black box is also an important term in the world of artificial intelligence. AI black boxes refer to AI systems with internal workings that are invisible to the user.

An AI glass box is a system whose algorithms, training data and model are all available for anyone to see. But researchers sometimes characterize aspects of even these as black box.