The duties and rights of business AI

The federal government's technology standards organization, NIST, has proposed four principles for explainable AI. An esoteric topic this is not. It would be untenable to ask a person or an organization to explain the why behind every decision, but a democratic society is based on the assumption that explanations can be had for all decisions if there is sufficient need. With no meaningful amount of additional resources over time required to do so, it could be argued that on-demand explanations for AI decisions should be available to anyone with a sufficient need to know. The first draft principle that NIST has proposed for public review suggests that AI deliver evidence or reasons for all outputs. Next, algorithms have to make explanations understandable to people occupying all the various roles touching on the system and its actions.