Towards Feminist Intersectional XAI: From Explainability to Response-Ability

Abstract

This paper follows calls for critical approaches to computing and conceptualisations of intersectional, feminist, decolonial HCI and AI design and asks what a feminist intersectional perspective in HCXAI research and design might look like. Sketching out initial research directions and implications for explainable AI design, it suggests that explainability from a feminist perspective would include the fostering of response-ability - the capacity to critically evaluate and respond to AI systems - and would centre marginalised perspectives.

Workshop Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI), ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI 23, April 23-28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany, 9 pages