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cs.AI2026

Rule of Thumb: Explaining Artificial Intelligence Systems using Partial Information

Kaivalya Rawal, Daria Onitiu, Brent Mittelstadt +2

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) seeks to explain how an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system arrived at a particular decision. We propose ''Rule of Thumb'' (RoT) explanati…

cs.AI2026

Evaluating the Ability of Explanations to Disambiguate Models in a Rashomon Set

Kaivalya Rawal, Eoin Delaney, Zihao Fu +2

Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) is concerned with producing explanations indicating the inner workings of models. For a Rashomon set of similarly performing models, expla…

cs.AI2023★ 17 cited

The Unfairness of Fair Machine Learning: Levelling down and strict egalitarianism by default

Brent Mittelstadt, Sandra Wachter, Chris Russell

In recent years fairness in machine learning (ML) has emerged as a highly active area of research and development. Most define fairness in simple terms, where fairness means reduci…

cs.AI2020★ 53 cited

Why Fairness Cannot Be Automated: Bridging the Gap Between EU Non-Discrimination Law and AI

Sandra Wachter, Brent Mittelstadt, Chris Russell

This article identifies a critical incompatibility between European notions of discrimination and existing statistical measures of fairness. First, we review the evidential require…

cs.AI2018★ 770 cited

Explaining Explanations in AI

Brent Mittelstadt, Chris Russell, Sandra Wachter

Recent work on interpretability in machine learning and AI has focused on the building of simplified models that approximate the true criteria used to make decisions. These models…

cs.AI2017

Counterfactual Explanations without Opening the Black Box: Automated Decisions and the GDPR

Sandra Wachter, Brent Mittelstadt, Chris Russell

There has been much discussion of the right to explanation in the EU General Data Protection Regulation, and its existence, merits, and disadvantages. Implementing a right to expla…