Connectionists: New Book Chapter on Explanation and XAI

[Joachim Diederich]

Any form of artificial superintelligence has to be transparent, in other words, how it works must be comprehensible to humans at all times. Not just a few selected experts but to any human who requests information. This includes children and individuals with an intellectual disability. An advanced artificial intelligence must explain in human comprehensible form why certain actions were performed and how certain outcomes were achieved. These explanations must take the form of videos, multimedia content or demonstrations so that anybody can understand them. If humans want to have any trust in an artificial superintelligence then explanation is a core requirement.

Diederich J. (2021) Explanation. In: The Psychology of Artificial Superintelligence. Cognitive Systems Monographs, vol 42. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71842-8_3