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It takes a village: The ecology of explaining AI

Fri
21
Apr
Time Friday 21 April, 2023 at 11:00 - 12:00
Place Hörsal UB.A.230 - Lindellhallen 3 & Online on Zoom

AI systems are commonly believed to be able to aid in more objective decision-making and, eventually, to make objective decisions of their own. However, such belief is riddled with fallacies, which are based on an overly simplistic approach to organizational decision-making.

Based on an ethnography of the Dutch police, we demonstrate that making decisions with AI requires practical explanations that go beyond an analysis of the computational methods used to generate predictions, to include an entire ecology of unbounded, open-ended interactions and interdependencies. In other words, explaining AI is ecological. Yet, this typically goes unnoticed.

We argue that this is highly problematic, as it is through acknowledging this ecology that we can recognize that we are not, and never will be, making objective decisions with AI. If we continue to ignore the ecology of explaining AI, we end up reinforcing, and  otentially even further stigmatizing, existing societal categories.

Event type: Lecture

Lauren Waardenburg

Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Information Systems Department

Assistant Professor of Information Systems

IESEG School of Management