As artificial intelligence moves from research laboratories into hospitals, courtrooms, and financial institutions, a fundamental tension has emerged between raw predictive power and the human need to understand — and trust — the decisions these systems make. Researcher Yuxin Wu has spent recent years working at the intersection of three demands that society is beginning to insist upon simultaneously: that AI explain itself, protect the people whose data it learns from, and remain reliable even when deliberately provoked. His work does not resolve every contradiction in the field, but it trace