Explainability – optimizing for ethics, caveats, and responsibility

Ethics and responsibility play a foundational role in dealing with your customers’ data and behavior and because most of you will build products that help assist humans to make decisions, eventually someone is going to ask you how your product arrives at conclusions. Critical thinking is one of the foundational cornerstones of human reasoning and if your product is rooted in DL, your answer won’t be able to truly satisfy anyone’s skepticism. Our heartfelt advice is this: don’t create a product that will harm people, get you sued, or pose a risk to your business.

That said, the goal post of what constitutes “harm” or an “AI system” is always changing and will continue to change as we saw with the current regulations and movements to legislate, which were introduced in chapter 2 of this book. Companies, technologists, leaders and officers of organizations often...