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Explainability

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

A characteristic of an AI system in which there is provision of accompanying evidence or reasons for system output in a manner that is meaningful or understandable to individual users (as well as to developers and auditors) and reflects the system’s process for generating the output (e.g., what alternatives were considered, but not proposed, and why not).

MWE

Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
interpretability
plural
Explainabilities
possessive
Explainability's
pluralpossessive
Explainabilities'