Explainability
Category: Fundamentals“ex-PLAIN-uh-BIL-ih-tee”
How well an AI can show you the reasons behind an answer, in words a person can follow.
Lesson #5: Trust, Risk & Running AI Responsibly →A doctor who tells you why, not just what pill to take.
A bank app showing which spending pushed your credit score down.
An estimator AI listing the labor and material lines behind its number.
A fraud tool naming the three signals that flagged a transaction.
If you can't explain an AI decision, you can't defend it to a customer, a boss, or a regulator.
Explainability means the AI can show its reasoning.
Ask an AI a judgment question, then ask 'what evidence did you use?' Rate how useful the answer is.
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