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Stephen Downes

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I'm adding this post today mostly to flag the European Digital Education Hub call for members of an Explainable AI squad. I can't find the specific source for this quote: "Explainable AI aims to bridge the gap between complex AI algorithms on the one side and educators, learners, and administrators on the other by providing clear insights into how AI systems arrive at their conclusions" (I guess it's somewhere deeper in the site). But I want to comment, because many people call for "explanations" without thinking through what exactly counts as an explanation. The very idea of, say, being able to "see and understand the rationale behind AI-driven decisions, recommendations and actions" is questionable when in fact there may not be a 'rationale' because neither human brains nor AI neural nets work that way.

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