A historical perspective of explainable Artificial Intelligence
By Roberto Confalonieri, Ludovik Çoba, Benedikt Wagner, Tarek R. Besold. WIREs Data Mining Knowl. Discov., 2020
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Explainability in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been revived as a topic of active research by the need of conveying safety and trust to users in the “how” and “why” of automated decision‐making in different applications such as autonomous driving, medical diagnosis, or banking and finance. While explainability in AI has recently received significant attention, the origins of this line of work go back several decades to when AI systems were mainly developed as (knowledge‐based) expert systems. Since then, the definition, understanding, and implementation of explainability have been picked up in several lines of research work, namely, expert systems, machine learning, recommender systems, and in approaches to neural‐symbolic learning and reasoning, mostly happening during different periods of AI history. In this article, we present a historical perspective of Explainable Artificial Intelligence. We discuss how explainability was mainly conceived in the past, how it is understood in the present and, how it might be understood in the future. We conclude the article by proposing criteria for explanations that we believe will play a crucial role in the development of human‐understandable explainable systems.
Subfields: Artificial Intelligence
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- Explainable AI (XAI): A Systematic Meta-Survey of Current Challenges and Future Opportunities (2021, unknown): “For that, the aim will be to use XAI to understand, debug, and improve the black-box AI system to enhance its robustness, increase safety and user trust, minimize or prevent faulty behavior, bias, unfairness, and discrimination [13].”
- Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) 2.0: A Manifesto of Open Challenges and Interdisciplinary Research Directions (2023, background): “It has evolved from being a niche research topic within the larger field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) [1–3] to becoming a highly active field of research, with a large number of theoretical contributions, empirical studies, and reviews being proposed every year [4,5].”