04085nam a22006015i 4500 978-3-031-68098-4 DE-He213 20251030112921.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240830s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031680984 978-3-031-68098-4 10.1007/978-3-031-68098-4 doi Q175.4-.55 JF bicssc SOC000000 bisacsh JB thema Kempt, Hendrik. author. (orcid)0000-0002-5886-2987 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5886-2987 aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 83213 (Un)explainable Technology [electronic resource] / by Hendrik Kempt. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XIII, 128 p. 1 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Conceptual Clarification -- Chapter 3: Epistemological Conditions -- Chapter 4: The Ethics of Explainability -- Chapter 5: Applied Cases -- Chapter 6: Explainability Debunked? -- Chapter 7: Conclusions. This book explores the issue of (un)explainable technology. As we face technologies, mostly autonomous, machine-learned algorithms (AI) that elude a seamless explanation on how they work (“black boxes”), several issues both from an epistemological as well as ethical perspectives emerge. It is thus not surprising that there are plenty of technological attempts in illuminating the black box as well as philosophical efforts in conceptualizing and re- assessing our concepts of an explanation and understanding, as well emerging ethical questions on how to deal with this unexplainable technology. This book thus offers a succinct and comprehensive, opinionated but fair view on the emerging ethical debate on explainability of AI and its relevance for using AI for different more or less sensitive decision-making procedures. As a short book, the goal is to introduce the reader to the issues at hand while also offering normative arguments from different sides that motivate, complicate, and resolve these issues. Hendrik Kempt is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Applied Ethics Group, RWTH Aachen University, where he received his PhD in 2023. His work focuses mainly on questions of the ethics of human-machine interaction, of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, and of technology in general. He has previously published the monographs “Chatbots and the Domestication of AI” (2020) as well as “Synthetic Friends - A Philosophy of Human-Machine Friendship” (2022), edited a book with Megan Volpert on “RuPaul’s Drag Race and Philosophy”, and has written several journal articles and book chapters on the issues of ethics of technology. Science Social aspects. 69032 Communication in science. 65873 Rhetoric. 66673 Technology. 58482 Science. Science Philosophy. 63307 Science Moral and ethical aspects. 78527 Artificial intelligence. 58441 Science and Technology Studies. 69033 Rhetoric of Science and Technology. 83214 Philosophy of Science. 68560 Science Ethics. 78528 Artificial Intelligence. 58441 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031680977 Printed edition: 9783031680991 Printed edition: 9783031681004 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68098-4 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 62875 62875