behavioronly
Behavioronly is a concept describing approaches, evaluations, or designs that rely exclusively on observable behavior or outputs, rather than internal states, intentions, or private data. It is used informally across fields such as artificial intelligence, psychology, human-computer interaction, and privacy to describe methods that infer properties of a system or agent from what it does, not from what it thinks or how it processes information internally.
In artificial intelligence and machine learning, behavior-only methods emphasize assessment and interaction through external performance, outputs,
In psychology, the concept echoes behaviorist traditions that study observable responses to stimuli, placing emphasis on
In robotics, behavior-based control reflects a similar emphasis on reactive policies driven by current sensory input.
Critics argue that ignoring internal representations can obscure causes of failure and hinder understanding of latent
See also: behaviorism, black-box testing, privacy-preserving analytics, explainable AI.