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Transparency and interpretability of AI systems are considered key drivers of trust, particularly in situations where the use of AI can have significant consequences for its users.
“Therefore, transparency and interpretability of AI systems are considered key drivers of trust, in particular in situations where the use of AI can have significant consequences for its users (Abusitta et al., 2024;Kowald et al., 2024).”
From Explainability in AI: Comparing Human-Like and System-Like Trust Repair Strategies (2026) · cites this paper as Abusitta et al., 2024
Users might lack the technical expertise or motivation to decipher technical information such as inference scores for system decisions.
“Users might lack the technical expertise or motivation to decipher technical information such as inference scores for system decisions (Abusitta et al., 2024;Liao et al., 2020).”
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- Authors
- Abusitta, A., Li, M. Q., & Fung, B. C. M.
- Affiliations
- Polytechnique Montréal (CA)
- McGill University (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Abusitta, Adel
- Venue
- Expert Systems with Applications
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2024-12
- Volume
- 255
- Pages
- 124710
- ISSN
- 0957-4174 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4400400027
- Cited by
- 98
- References
- 172
- Citations by year
- 2026: 43 · 2025: 51 · 2024: 4
- FWCI
- 14.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Expert Systems with Applications (publishedVersion)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (acceptedVersion)
- PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Software › Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
- Keywords
- explainable AI, explainable machine learning, explainable deep learning, black-box models, deep neural network, model interpretability, trust in AI
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