The Emergence of Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Modern Decision Systems

  • Authors

    • Dr. Meena Krishnan Assistant Professor, Anna University, India. Author

    DOI:

    https://doi.org/10.67228/30715628/IJMIET-2023PI1J5W

    Published 01-03-2023

  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Decision Support Systems, Model Interpretability, Transparent AI, Trustworthy AI, Ethical AI, Human-Centered AI, Machine Learning Explainability

    Issue

    Vol. 6 No. 1 (2023)

    Section

    Articles

    How to Cite

    [1]
    M. Krishnan, “The Emergence of Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Modern Decision Systems”, ijmiet, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 01–11, Jan. 2023, doi: 10.67228/30715628/IJMIET-2023PI1J5W.

  • Abstract

    Through the application of Artificial intelligence (AI), there has been the establishment of the technology as a cornerstone in current decision systems in essential fields like health, finance, transport, industrial automation, and the governance of citizens. Although traditional AI and machine learning frameworks, specifically deep learning models, have shown outstanding predictive performance, their nature is not enlightened by default, and as such, they have cast considerable doubt on the issues of trust, accountability, fairness, and regulatory compliance. It is thanks to this limitation that Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) as a paradigm has emerged, aimed at ensuring that AI-driven decisions are easy to understand and interpret by the human stakeholders without major performance reduction. This paper is a thorough and stepwise analysis of how XAI was created in current decision systems. It starts with the historical contextualization of the development of AI, as an expert system driven by rules, to a data-driven black-box model and the increasing demand to explain decision-making processes. The paper provides a critical literature review of the current research on XAI methods classifying them into model-intrinsic and post-hoc methods of explanation, and discussing their relevance to various fields. An elaborate methodology is suggested, that incorporates explainability protocols into the AI choice channel, such as information pre-processing, model order, explanation creation and human-centered assessment. Additionally, the paper evaluates the experimental findings and case-based debates on how XAI enhances transparency, end-user trust, compliance with regulations, and system resilience. Popular explainability methods are also compared and evaluated including SHAP, LIME, saliency maps, and rule extraction. The results indicate that explainable models, in addition to increasing interpretability, can also help to improve debugging, bias detection and ethical AI deployment. The paper ends by recommending the current challenges, areas of open research, and future roles of XAI in the development of responsible and human-centered intelligent decision systems.

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