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IPEN event on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)

31
May
2023

IPEN event on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)

The EDPS and INRIA organised on 31st May 2023 an Internet Privacy Engineering Network (IPEN) event on explainable artificial intelligence (XAI).

WhereBibliotheque Marie Curie from INSA – Lyon (France)  - 31 Av. Jean Capelle O, 69100 Villeurbanne, France and online

Programme and Video: the programme and the video recording of the event are available on the dedicate page of the event

A growing number of public and private organisations are deploying or planning to deploy AI systems. Many of these systems are designed to make decisions or assist humans in making decisions. Sometimes these are decisions that can have a significant impact on an individuals. Given the nature and complexity of AI systems, understanding and explaining how and why the AI system comes to a conclusion is often a challenge.

The purpose of explainable AI (XAI) systems is to make their behaviour understandable to humans by providing explanations of the underlying decision-making processes. To be humanly understandable, systems need to be able to explain their capabilities, their understandings and explain how and why a particular decision was reached. However, any explanation will be set in a context that depends on the task, capabilities, and expectations of the user of the AI system. And even the best explanations will be useless if users do not trust the efficiency or fairness of a system.

With this event, the EDPS wanted to stimulate a discussion in order to clarify the expectations regarding the XAI, its limitations and misunderstandings. The event was followed by the Annual Privacy Forum 2023, which is organised also in Lyon on 1-2 June by ENISA, DG Connect and INRIA.

About IPEN: The purpose of IPEN is to bring together developers and data protection experts with a technical background from different areas in order to launch and support projects that build privacy into everyday tools and develop new tools that can effectively protect and enhance our privacy. More info on the dedicated page IPEN - Internet Privacy Engineering Network