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AI GLOSSARY
Explainable AI
XAISafety, Alignment & Ethics
A field of research and practice focused on making AI systems' decisions understandable to humans, developing methods that can explain why a model produced a particular output in terms that non-experts can interpret. XAI encompasses a range of techniques from feature importance scores and saliency maps to natural language explanations, and is increasingly required in regulated industries and high-stakes applications.
See also: explainability, interpretability, algorithmic accountability.