Facchini, Alessandro and Termine, Alberto (2021) Towards a Taxonomy of Pragmatic Opacity. [Preprint]

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The research program of eXplainable AI (XAI) has been developed with the aim of providing tools and methods for reducing opacity and making AI systems more humanly understandable. Unfortunately, the majority of XAI scholars actually classify a system as more or less opaque by confronting it with traditional rules-based systems, which are usually assumed to be the prototype of transparent systems. In doing so, the concept of opacity remains unexplained. To overcome this issue, we propose to view opacity as a pragmatic concept. Based on this, we then explicit the distinction between structural opacity, link opacity and informational opacity, hence providing the groundwork for a conceptual taxonomy for XAI scholars and their practice

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Facchini, Alessandro alessandro.facchini@idsia.ch 0000-0001-7507-116X Termine, Alberto alberto.termine@unimi.it 0000-0001-5993-0948
Keywords:	Opacity, Explainable AI, Machine Learning, Scientific Understanding
Subjects:	General Issues > Data General Issues > Computer Simulation General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Technology General Issues > Values In Science
Depositing User:	Mr. Alberto Termine
Date Deposited:	31 Oct 2021 23:39
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2021 23:39
Item ID:	19766
Subjects:	General Issues > Data General Issues > Computer Simulation General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Technology General Issues > Values In Science
Date:	July 2021
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/19766

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