Ethics and normativity of explainable AI (B06)

• Subject Area: Practical Philosophy ; Theatre and Media Studies
• Term: since 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 438445824

B06 investigates the normative purposes of XAI. In the first funding period we have established that there are many different normative grounds for XAI. To assess them, it is necessary to take the organizational context of XAI into account. To achieve that aim, media studies will clarify the organizational context in which XAI is embedded, where this context is considered as a socio-technical setting. Philosophy will explicate how XAI in the organizational context mediates epistemic and civic virtues. Both results will be synthesized into a reworked value sensitive design (VSD) method, which previously did not take organizational conditions into account.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 318: Constructing explainability
• Applicant Institution: Universität Paderborn
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Suzana Alpsancar; Professor Dr. Tobias Matzner