Explainability

The ability to understand how or why a model reached a conclusion and produced a given output.

Also called

  • Explainable AI (XAI)
  • Interpretability

Often confused with

  • Observability The tracking and recording of what an AI system does on each run: inputs, outputs, steps, tool calls, cost and errors.

Related

  • Bias A skew in how an AI system treats people or cases, or in what it produces, inherited from its data or built in by design.

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