Explainability
Methods or disclosures intended to make a model output or system decision understandable.
What Explainability does not show
An explanation can be useful without being a faithful account of internal causation.
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Questions about Explainability
What is Explainability?
Methods or disclosures intended to make a model output or system decision understandable.
What does Explainability not show or guarantee?
An explanation can be useful without being a faithful account of internal causation.
Which area of the glossary does Explainability belong to?
Governance and rights: Who may use content for what: rights reservations, opt-outs, licences, model documentation and the accountability vocabulary around them.
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