Léo Mignot (@leomignot.bsky.social)

The false hope of current approaches to explainable artificial intelligence in health care The black-box nature of current artificial intelligence (AI) has caused some to question whether AI must be explainable to be used in high-stakes scenarios such as medicine. It has been argued that explainable AI will engender trust with the health-care workforce, provide transparency into the AI decision making process, and potentially mitigate various kinds of bias. In this Viewpoint, we argue that this argument represents a false hope for explainable AI and that current explainability methods are unlikely to achieve these goals for patient-level decision support. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(21)00208-9/fulltext