HAI Fellow Kate Vredenburgh: The Right to an Explanation

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Jun 24 2020
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Are individuals owed explanations when AI makes decisions that affect their lives? Kate Vredenburgh, HAI and McCoy Family Center for Ethics and Society postdoctoral fellow (seen at left), discusses what it would mean to implement such a right. If AI developers know they will have to justify their work during implementation the hope is this would create incentives for building more morally justifiable algorithms. Link