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explainability

/ɪkˌspleɪnəˈbɪləti/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A chart explaining a decision no one had defined well enough to question.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. The degree to which a model's outputs can be attributed to understandable factors a human can audit.

Filed

Seen in the wild · 4

We Bought Active Metadata to Avoid Deciding Who Owns the DataShiny Object Pursuit
Data observability raised a fortune to watch the number. Defining the number raised nothing.Process Debt
Lineage is mandatory for the audit and partial in practice.Owner Missing
The table format went open. The lock-in just moved upstairs to the catalog.Platform Tunnel Vision

See also

ai governanceTerm struck pending the decision rights, review cadence, and accountability for training data and outcomes it presumes someone already assigned.
model cardThe honest paragraph about limitations that the deployment slide forgot to copy across.
model evaluationThe benchmark the model passes, chosen after seeing which benchmark it passes.
responsible aiTerm struck pending a named owner for each of fairness, accountability, transparency, and review — qualities currently assigned to everyone, which means no one.