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DESCRIPTION:Taming the Machines\n\nAI\, Explainability and Epistemic Depend
 ence\n\nLecture given by Jocelyn Malure at the University of Hamburg\n\nTh
 e idea that people subjected to opaque AI-based decisions have a “right to
  explanation”\, under specific circumstances\, is generating a stimulating
  and productive debate in philosophy. Some early normative defenses of the
  right to explanation or public justifications (Vredenburgh 2021\; Maclure
  2021) are being challenged from a variety of perspectives (Ross 2022\; Ta
 ylor 2024\; Fritz 2024\; Karlan & Kugelberg 2025). Alternatively\, some ar
 e qualifying or refining the case for a right to explanation (Da Silva 202
 3\; Grote & Paulo 2025\; Dishaw 2025). While I addressed the argument acco
 rding to which deep artificial neural networks are not significantly more 
 fallible and opaque than human minds in a previous paper (2021)\, I now wa
 nt to turn my attention to two new emerging counterarguments to the right 
 to explanation thesis. The first one is normative: the standards of public
  reason do not typically apply to AI decisions and the interests at play d
 o not justify the cost of a granting a right to explanation. The second on
 e is epistemic: social epistemologists have long been urging us to recogni
 ze human thinkers’ basic epistemic dependence upon the testimonies of othe
 rs and upon a variety of complex social processes. The defenders of the ri
 ght to explanation arguably overlook the possibility that it may be justif
 ied to defer epistemically to black box algorithms. Although serious\, I w
 ill argue that these counterarguments are unsuccessful.\n
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LOCATION:DE\, University of Hamburg
SUMMARY:AI\, Explainability and Epistemic Dependence
URL:/jarislowsky-chair/channels/event/ai-explainabilit
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