Explaining Machines: Social Management of Incomprehensible Algorithms. Introduction
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Explainable AI, Inexplicability, Transparency, Explanation, Opacity, ContestabilityAbstract
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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