WiDS Maastricht 2021 - Anna Wilbik

Does explainability imply shifted responsibility?

Developments in domains like Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Data Science lead to possibilities for more autonomous systems that directly interact with their environment. However, this poses a range of questions about responsibility whose answers need to supply explicit directions for security constraints, privacy regulations and traceability demands. This technical talk discussed how the allocation of responsibility by autonomous information systems, system designers, system users, and data subjects is affected by explainability and understandability. In the case of a black-box decision making system, responsibility is allocated more at the designer or system side. In case of a white box decision making system, the responsibility may be shifted to the user and client side. 

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_{Prof. Dr. Anna Wilbik is a professor in Data Fusion and Intelligent Interaction at the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering (DKE) at Maastricht University. She holds her PhD in Computer Science from the Systems Research Institute at the Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw. Currently she is a also vice-chair of the Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee (FSTC) and chair of task force on Explainable Machine Learning of CIS IEEE.}