The AI Act Proposal: a New Right to Technical Interpretability?

10 Pages Posted: 13 Apr 2023

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Chiara Gallese

University of Trieste, Department of Mathematics and Geosciences; Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering

Date Written: February 20, 2023

Abstract

The debate about the concept of the so called right to explanation in AI is the subject of a wealth of literature. It has focused, in the legal scholarship, on art. 22 GDPR and, in the technical scholarship, on techniques that help explain the output of a certain model (XAI). The purpose of this work is to investigate if the new provisions introduced by the proposal for a Regulation laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (AI Act), in combination with Convention 108 plus and GDPR, are enough to indicate the existence of a right to technical explainability in the EU legal framework and, if not, whether the EU should include it in its current legislation. This is a preliminary work submitted to the online event organised by the Information Society Law Center and it will be later developed into a full paper.

Keywords: interpretability, explainability, XAI, AI Act, AI Law, trustworthy AI

Suggested Citation

Gallese, Chiara, The AI Act Proposal: a New Right to Technical Interpretability? (February 20, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4398206 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4398206

Chiara Gallese (Contact Author)

University of Trieste, Department of Mathematics and Geosciences ( email )

Piazzale Europa 1
Trieste, Trieste 34127
Italy

Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering ( email )

Eindhoven
Netherlands

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