Projekt

Artificially intelligent systems are increasingly used to augment or take over tasks previously performed by humans. These include high-stakes tasks such as suggesting which patient to grant a life-saving medical treatment or navigating autonomous cars through dense traffic-a trend raising profound technical, moral, and legal challenges for society. Against this background, it is imperative that intelligent systems meet central desiderata placed on them by society. They need to be perceivably trustworthy, support competent and responsible decisions, allow for autonomous human agency and for adequate accountability attribution, conform with legal rights, and preserve fundamental moral rights. EIS substantiates the widely accepted claim that meeting these desiderata presupposes human stakeholders to be able to understand intelligent systems' behavior and that to achieve this, explainability is crucial. EIS combines expertise from informatics, law, philosophy, and psychology in a highly interdisciplinary and innovative research agenda to develop a novel 'explainability-in-context' (XiC) framework for intelligent systems. The XiC framework provides concrete suggestions regarding the kinds of explanations needed in different contexts and for different stakeholders to meet specific societal desiderata. It will be geared towards guiding future research and policy-making with respect to intelligent systems as well as their embedding in our society.

• Jun.Prof. Dr. Lena Kästner

  Universität des Saarlandes
  Philosophisches Institut
  Saarbrücken
  

• Prof. Dr. Eva Schmidt

  Technische Universität Dortmund
  Fakultät 14 Humanwissenschaften und Theologie
  Institut für Philosophie und Politikwissenschaft
  Dortmund
  

• Prof. Dr. Georg Borges

  Universität des Saarlandes
  Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät
  Professur für Bürgerliches Recht,
  Rechtsinformatik, deutsches und internationales
  Wirtschaftsrecht sowie Rechtstheorie
  Saarbrücken
  

• Prof. Dr. Ulla Wessels

  Universität des Saarlandes
  Philosophisches Institut
  Professur für Praktische Philosophie
  Saarbrücken
  

• Dr. Markus Langer

  Universität des Saarlandes
  Fakultät für Empirische Humanwissenschaften
  Fachrichtung Psychologie
  Arbeitseinheit Arbeits- und
  Organisationspsychologie
  Saarbrücken
  

• Prof. Dr. Cornelius König

  Universität des Saarlandes
  Fachrichtung Psychologie
  Professur für Arbeits- und
  Organisationspsychologie
  Saarbrücken
  

• Prof. Dr. Holger Hermanns

  Universität des Saarlandes
  Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik
  Fachrichtung Informatik
  Lehrstuhl für Zuverlässige Systeme
  und Software
  Saarbrücken
  

• From Responsibility to Reason-Giving Explainable Artificial Intelligence