> So all you need to do to abuse employees is make the algorithm sufficiently complex and get a smooth talking lawyer.

Yeah that is true. I was speaking more to the importance of interpretability in these things, and how the lack of it leads to bad incentives very quickly.

> Problem with high dimensions is that it is really hard to explain without math because you no longer can rely on any visualization reference.

Yep, and the co-dependencies also tend to become very hard to reason about.