Spiegare le pieghe. Alcune osservazioni su trasparenza e spiegabilità

Explaining the Folds. Some Remarks on Transparency and Explainability Governing a phenomenon implies that one must first be able to understand and explain it, literally peel back the folds, bringing it to light to evaluate and estimate its impacts. Specifically, within a significantly extensive and articulated framework, a primary issue that needs to be addressed concerns the ability to “look between the folds,” scrutinize opacity, and reflect on the concept of black-box in machine learning systems. System transparency is a prerequisite for human-machine coexistence. In this direction, some considerations are intended to be placed on the explainability of the decision as an extension and implementation of the transparency principle. Explainability is a very complicated and technical matter, but one that lends itself to a preliminary principled evaluation. It is the response, or has the potential to be, to a question of meaning, a legal claim, and becomes a method for ethically interrogating innovation.