Your model denies someone a loan, and they demand to know why. How do you handle the right to explanation?
For consequential decisions, 'the model said so' will not satisfy a regulator. Adverse-action notices and the right to explanation limit which model you can even ship. Here is the governance view.
Updated Sep 2026 · Grounded in real GenAI, LLM, and AI/ML engineering interview loops and written to a senior-engineer editorial bar.
For consequential decisions, 'the model said so' will not satisfy a regulator. Adverse-action notices and the right to explanation limit which model you can even ship. Here is the governance view.
Lead with where the obvious approach breaks, because that is the judgment they are screening for — most candidates jump straight to the happy path and lose the room.
Then walk the failure back through the pipeline in order, naming the one metric the customer's exec sponsor actually cares about before you propose the fix.
