Artificial intelligence and the value of transparency

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dc.contributor.authorWalmsley, Joel
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-25T09:39:30Z
dc.date.available2020-09-25T09:39:30Z
dc.date.issued2020-09-08
dc.date.updated2020-09-25T09:29:13Z
dc.description.abstractSome recent developments in Artificial Intelligence-especially the use of machine learning systems, trained on big data sets and deployed in socially significant and ethically weighty contexts-have led to a number of calls for "transparency". This paper explores the epistemological and ethical dimensions of that concept, as well as surveying and taxonomising the variety of ways in which it has been invoked in recent discussions. Whilst "outward" forms of transparency (concerning the relationship between an AI system, its developers, users and the media) may be straightforwardly achieved, what I call "functional" transparency about the inner workings of a system is, in many cases, much harder to attain. In those situations, I argue that contestability may be a possible, acceptable, and useful alternative so that even if we cannot understand how a system came up with a particular output, we at least have the means to challenge it.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationWalmsley, J. (2020) 'Artificial intelligence and the value of transparency', AI and Society. doi: 10.1007/s00146-020-01066-zen
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s00146-020-01066-zen
dc.identifier.eissn1435-5655
dc.identifier.issn0951-5666
dc.identifier.journaltitleAI and Societyen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/10584
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSpringer Nature Switzerland AGen
dc.relation.urihttps://rdcu.be/b6XgP
dc.rights© 2020, Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in AI and Society. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00146-020-01066-zen
dc.subjectTransparencyen
dc.subjectExplainabilityen
dc.subjectContestabilityen
dc.subjectMachine learningen
dc.subjectBiasen
dc.titleArtificial intelligence and the value of transparencyen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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