Explaining artificial intelligence in human-centred terms – Martin Schüßler

Since AI involves interactions between machines and humans--rather than just the former replacing the latter--'explainable AI' is a new challenge. Intelligent systems, based on machine learning, are penetrating many aspects of our society. They span a large variety of applications--from the seemingly harmless automation of micro-tasks, such as the suggestion of synonymous phrases in text editors, to more contestable uses, such as in jail-or-release decisions, anticipating child-services interventions, predictive policing and many others. Researchers have shown that for some tasks, such as lung-cancer screening, intelligent systems are capable of outperforming humans. In many other cases, however, they have not lived up to exaggerated expectations.