Explaining Machines: Social Management of Incomprehensible Algorithms. Introduction

Elena Esposito

doi:10.6092/issn.1971-8853/16265

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Elena Esposito Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna; Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3075-292X

Elena Esposito is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld (Germany) and the University of Bologna (Italy). She has published extensively on the theory of society, media theory, memory theory and the sociology of financial markets. Her current research on algorithmic prediction is supported by a five-year Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. Her latest book is Artificial Communication: How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence (MIT Press, 2022).

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/16265

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Explainable AI, Inexplicability, Transparency, Explanation, Opacity, Contestability

Abstract

This short introduction presents the symposium ‘Explaining Machines’. It locates the debate about Explainable AI in the history of the reflection about AI and outlines the issues discussed in the contributions.

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