Opacity
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
The nature of some AI techniques whereby the inferential operations are complex, hidden, or otherwise opaque to their developers and end users in terms of providing an understanding of how classifications, recommendations, or actions are generated and what overall performance will be.
polysemous
Classifications
Entity Type
Vulnerability100%manual revieweval-seeds-v0.4-2026-05-14
Ddorianlast reviewed —
OVERRIDE Capability→Vulnerability. Opacity is the undesirable systemic property.
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- black boxopaquenessunexplainable
- plural
- Opacities
- possessive
- Opacity's
- pluralpossessive
- Opacities'