The case for self-explainable AI

This article is part of our reviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that explore the latest findings in artificial intelligence. Would you trust an artificial intelligence algorithm that works eerily well, making accurate decisions 99.9 percent of the time, but is a mysterious black box? Every system fails every now and then, and when it does, we want explanations, especially when human lives are at stake. And a system that can't be explained can't be trusted. That is one of the problems the AI community faces as their creations become smarter and more capable of tackling complicated and critical tasks.